"Megan Fernandes’ poems sizzle with imagination and wordplay. Crab nebula, astroid octopi, wild orchids, Baudelaire and Faulkner, “measles, beetles, and boxed apple juice”—there’s nothing her poems can’t celebrate and combine in spicy variations. But at their core, Fernandes places elemental nourishment. In dazzle and darkness, in frolic and sober assessment, these poems craft shapes that matter." ---Rosanna Warren
Megan Fernandes is a PhD student in English Literature and the founder of the Poetry/Poetics Hub at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the co-editor of Strangers in Paris (Tightrope Books) and author of Organ Speech (Corrupt Press) .
Particle Life
In the end, the whole thing was a light show
buried in the skies, pink and green circuits
cutting the clouds, the moon magnetic and
unfixed. What must you think of this world and
of measure? Of sticks and distance? Of the hard
latitudes and slanted hang of scrub oak? The sea
is so deep and maddening, it will make you steal
gravity, spray the sky red with halos, keep
it dark with creatures like crab nebula , the drunk
and cheery astroid octopi, the elliptical light
of oyster showers. What does the sea think of snow,
anyways? A white net, falling? Or can waves
understand particles, swift and secular,
migrating into the wrinkled void?
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