Ice Moon by Kevin Stadt
thin winds slant methane sleet
ammonic cryomagma
flash freezing
over dunes,
rivers, seas,
frigid rocks that never caught
the trick of calamity
blind engines of radioactive decay and
underground tidal friction
keep buried oceans
seething in the dark unseen
the ice-mineral crust
shudders
what crack in being,
what tragic slip
could curse Eden?
only eyes
only an I
Kevin Stadt holds a master’s degree in teaching writing and a doctorate in American literature. He currently teaches writing at Hanyang University. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Indefinite Space, Neologism Poetry Journal, and Rust + Moth, among others. He lives in South Korea with his wife and sons, who are interdimensional cyborg pirates wanted in a dozen star systems. You can visit him online at kevinstadt.com.