Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
April 27, 2026

Light Show

"...brought to life by the games of lights..."

Light Show

The paradox,
galleria sky
and ignominious planet,
glistens from the surface
of an as-yet-unnamed planet
like the child recalls,
from home, his place of grieving
to here, the fantasy of desolation
brought to life by the games of lights --
it's a crystalline hourglass world,
but it's a lifeless, neighbor-less world also --
it looks like something
in the window of an artisan jeweler,
but the air is poison ice
and the ground beneath
is shapeless, ill-formed,
like a class in wicked geometry.







Article © John Grey. All rights reserved.
Published in the July 18, 2022 issue .
Image(s) are public domain.
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