cosmos, carry us | lord vaughn
i was a calamity | inside a box | inside the vacuum of
space | where other boxes | gently floated by | opaque
the boxes | did their six walls | hold calamity too |
would their riot be familiar | the yearnings that drone |
the blaring anxieties | us all chambers of noise |
situated within void | if i could bring to bear | that
common din | to fill the space between us | we might
find | some desperate melody | undergirding it all |
i am here
i am here
About the Author:
lord vaughn is a poet from Carson, California, who captures emotion in pigment then paints the sky. Inspired by the lyricism of Kendrick Lamar and Hanif Abdurraqib, his work is rhythmically precise and unflinchingly introspective. His writing has been featured in The West Wind Literary Journal.