—a factual account
microplastics melt and cohabit
stones on remote islands,
melding new geology
fashionably hybrid.
in short time the moon
will have its own time zone,
a part on our watch, as
seaweed blooms mid-ocean
wider than a continent
and lists towards shores,
still-hungry
This poem first appeared in New Verse News.
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Shira Dentz is the author of five books including Sisyphusina (PANK), winner of the Eugene Paul Nassar Prize, and two chapbooks. Her writing appears in many venues including Poetry, American Poetry Review, Cincinnati Review, Iowa Review, New American Writing, Poets.org, and NPR, and she’s a recipient of awards including an Academy of American Poets Prize, Poetry Society of America’s Lyric Poem and Cecil Hemley Awards, and NELLE Literary Journal’s Three Sisters Award for creative nonfiction. More at www.shiradentz.com
