Insatiable

How did it come down to this—that I
Question the once bright-faced moon
Now a blackhole lonelily drifting
Through space; ravening for, or
On galaxies and planets arranged
Neatly in the cold lunchbox
Of a prodigious school outcast

Have their icy mother forgotten
To warn them today against sweating
The small stuff; like, if they can't help
But look in the eye of a tormentor
They must speak with the resolve
Of a continent in a deadly headlock
With a flaky tectonic plate



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Emeniano Acain Somoza, Jr. considers himself the official spiritual advisor of his roommates, Gordot and Dwight - the first a goldfish, the other a Turkish Van cat. His works have been published in The Poetry Magazine, Moria Poetry Journal, Fogged Clarity, Everyday Poem, Loch Raven Review, The Buddhist Poetry Review, The Philippines Free Press, Troubadour 21, Full of Crow, Indigo Rising, Asia Writes, Triggerfish Critical Review, Troubadors 21, Gloom Cupboard, TAYO, Haggard & Halloo, and elsewhere. His first book, A Fistful of Moonbeams, was published by Kilmog Press in April 2010. His second, Kleenex Theory, published by Createspace-Amazon, came out in 2015. He is busy anthologizing emptiness and boredom at the moment.