May 2015
I am an attorney and writer living in Arlington, Virginia. I have two books to my name: Unknown Sands: Journeys Around the World's Most Isolated Country, a first hand account of traveling the central Asian country of Turkmenistan and a legal reference book that has nothing to do with poetry. I keep a blog on books and poems on an unscheduled basis, http://compulsivelyaimless.blogspot.com/ I'm currently writing stories centered around a crayon factory started by my great grandfather.
God's Apartment
With the most powerful telescope
scientists look past the big bang
into God’s apartment
and glimpse a nightstand
next to the futon.
There's a lava lamp
— birthday gift
from his older sister —
containing slow motion
milky blobs
other universes
including ours
they strain to see
what’s on the bookcase
but it’s just out of sight.
Lines of Communication
Coast-to-coast:
Sail cirrus wisps —
Rise smoke signals —
Trek Lewis and Clark —
Gallops the Pony Express —
Steams the Union Pacific —
Spark dots and dashes —
Flies Vin Fiz —
Rings American Telephone and Telegraph —
Travel interstate 'evens' —
Streak airline contrails —
Text iPhone to Android —
Communicating we’re One
©2015 John Kropf