Horse Head Nebula
Morgan Harlow

 

 

HORSE

HEAD

NEBULA,

            a smoking pistol.

Inconsequential patterns

result from any action.

Dust is in

concrete

and a bit

vaporous.

Instability,

the secret

of the stars.                                   the

                                                in       mor

What became                       r                nin'

of this one                          e                        .

and of that?                       e

                                        b

Our ancestors drank

 

 

 

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Morgan Harlow’s poetry, fiction, and other writing is published or forthcoming in War, Literature & the Arts, the Tusculum Review, Washington Square, Blue Mesa Review, Descant, Seneca Review, The Cortland Review, West Wind Review, and elsewhere.