Li Po Pulls|Stephen Morse

moon stalks
the sky overhead
 
tidal action
              raking oceans for
marine life 

producing oxygen 
                  the ocean  shrinks 
                                   the earth is 
dangerously 
       growing                       
                     larger 

too 
           close 
                       too 
                            close

waves scrape
                    California away
                    heated waters
                          
destroying 
               thermals 
                           expose
                               Atlantis
boiling  whales 
                       small boats burn in the estuary
                       glass Japanese 
                                net floats 
                                shatter on  Mount Diablo

       litter litter of life
       incidentally 
         random
           destructions beams of
                   moon rush
                         stalk and knock                         
                            prisons and pyramids
                                     to random 
                                      pieces 
                                   of memory
                         

Li Po pushes 
speeding unbalanced orbit
     mindless design moon away
               the earth is  
farther  
           away
water wobbles 
marine life rests
                dreaming
                           oxygen 
moon on a sun light hydrogen sweep-up
one last fast pass
across distant low-lying continents
and sluggish  water
               a starfish
                       dies of thirst
                              a surfless night
 
                      too far too far
the distance 
              the moon is leaving
                         a splash of 
                
            quiet waves
           farther away
               still deep pools
                tide 
                    fish 
                die
stagnant peaceful  water
      moonless night

Li Po dies 
            in star light.