Science Sonnet 1
Science Sonnet 1
by Dan Raphael
self-impressed enough to go one step further,
a thousand feet higher, i never saw calves like that,
lavaic bubbles inside a quiet volcano
skipping along the waves of imaginary traffic:
no cars but beasts that used to or never have,
from renaissance to reconnaissance to reckoning,
the ring of reason but the scent of speculation,
what hasn’t landed yet, hasn’t been born or died
with 2 forks, 3 spooons & a tefloned ceramic knife
of molecular time travel, as if the number of moons
around saturn explains its place at the table that’s our stove
dug from deeper roots reverse antennae
til we’ve gathered so much we celebrate
raising the murky surface with our fruiting bodies
offering all the seeds you can inhale and crack
Dan Raphael’s responsive,reflexive and expressive poetry has
a deep yet high voice of sonority and now seniority on the world’s surrealistic scene.