Liz Marlow

6,000 CORPSES FROM THE SIEDLCE, POLAND GHETTO ARRIVE AT TREBLINKA

—   November 28, 1942 

Knife Edge
inches its way 
toward Tadpole Galaxy 
to perform a bris
while stars collide
into dust,
a black hole,
but out of that destruction, 
protostars form 
like cities 
repopulating
after epidemics.  
Planets in our solar system 
complete revolutions 
while Earth hides 
its oldest cemeteries. Still, 
hills resemble fresh graves
and mountains
resemble mausoleums. 
A comet, 
like this train, 
exiled 
from the Kuiper Belt,
expires
while orbiting the Sun,
while bystanders gaze
into telescopes
watching it pass.

Liz Marlow's debut chapbook, They Become Stars, was the winner of the 2019 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition. Additionally, her poems have appeared in The Bitter Oleander, Permafrost, Minnesota Review, Tikkun, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA from Western Michigan University and MBA from the University of Memphis. Currently, she lives in Memphis, Tennessee with her husband and two children. 

Please visit her at: http://www.lizmarlow.com