Eschatology
Elena Tomorowitz
The study of final things
we don’t know when
will come,
or come again
like sleep
so don’t let the leg hang
over the bed
because the cat claws
what’s under there
I don’t know what –
a blank of dark and dust,
trapped in the heaviness of too much space,
why we wrap the babies tight
to keep those demons out
in parkas and buffalo furs
here, the mountains,
there is no end.
The tallest peak
is never found,
bodies christen the trails
are no longer the enemies
to their deaths
like garbage
Sherpas tread lightly
but are just trying to get somewhere.
Elena Tomorowitz earned an MFA from Cleveland State University's NEOMFA, and PhD from The University of Southern Mississippi's Center for Writers, both with a focus on poetry. She has work appearing in Guernica, The New Guard, Hayden's Ferry Review, Fugue, The Collagist, and others. She lives in Boise.
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