Black Petals Issue #96, Summer, 2021

Ain't Alien Spores
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Ain’t Alien Spores

 

Richard Stevenson

 

Ain’t alien spores,

but don’t let ‘em indoors!

They’re invertebrate eggs.

A goopy orange soup,

fishy tapioca – but whose?

 

Kavalinahas,

a small Alaskan village,

woke up to goop at the shore.

It turned the water orange,

suffocated the fish.

 

Now it’s everywhere!

Goopin’ up lawns and laundry.

Such a quandry … What lays

so many eggs, and from where?

Don’t get ‘em in your eyes or hair.

 

They’re everywhere!

Under the doors, in the sink

and drawers.  Jellied fish eggs –

Gotta be from space:

nothing here replicates at such a pace!

 

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Richard Stevenson retired after a thirty-year teaching stint at Lethbridge College and now lives in Nanaimo, BC.  Forthcoming books include a trilogy, Cryptid Shindig, from Hidden Brook Press ( including the volumes If a Dolphin Had Digits, Nightcrawlers, and Radioactive Frogs); a standalone collection, An Abominable Swamp Slob Named Bob, from Altered Reality Press; and collection of haikai and lyric poems for younger kids, Action Dachshund! (from Ekstasis Editions).  He’s hoping to put another edition of his poetry/rock troupe, Sasquatch, together when Covid takes a bow and we can have live music again.

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