Poetry
Life for Mars
Zakari Kaletka
Archived original text
Those freckles…
Like red Dirt.
The color
Of-
Bricks, that they’ll try
To build
On your
Shoulders that long for
Seldomness.
Before your
Face met the
Horrors of
Population. But,
Find euphoria in...
Retrograde.
Fall back...
Crack open,
To let titanic
Arms reach for
Starlight, and for what they may see
Don’t let them
Change your form
These foreign bodies that
Find themselves close
Remember:
Before anyone found you
You were: through dissection
And deprecation
Collecting and breaking;
Tore yourself apart to
Come back
Together again
Every layer
And the broken ones below
A part of the present
The future
Your past
In your bones