Life on Earth
by Jack Myers
During my life on earth, I loved being
showered by the sun’s colored protons
while seagulls screamed and days
dredged back and forth in the sexual smell of fish.
I loved my yellow consciousness
that was a long yes hovering above me
in blissful numbness like a gold ring
promised to a blue afterlife.
Yes, it was the sunlit numbness of being
in the moment that I miss though I’m enjoying
the reverse: it all happening simultaneously,
and me, holding all of it inside me, totally dispersed.
Happy New Year!!
Happy New Year from all of us at The Café Review! May your 2017 be a wonderful and amazing year!
Adam Tavel
his poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in Night Train, The Apalachee Review, Poet Lore, Bad Subjects, and The Explicator, among others, and he has new work forthcoming in The South Carolina Review and Alehouse. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Wor–Wic Community College on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
Claire Hersom
is a native Mainer with three books of poetry to her credit, the most recent, Drowning: A Poetic Memoir, was published by Moon Pie Press in 2008. Drowning is a book about poverty in Maine, selected by The Orange Room Review as preferred reading for 2009. She has been published in several poetry journals, the latest being Yankee Magazine’s New England series. As a freelance writer, her articles appear in local newspapers, such as those by Courier Publications out of Rockland, Maine. Her essays appear regularly in Wolf Moon Journal, book reviews in Off the Coast, The Cafe Review, and Rattle. Claire has three grown children, a small herd of grandchildren, and lives in Winthrop, ME.