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On Palomar Mountain
By Tom Laichas
telescope grits
its gear-teeth
opens its eye
to azimuth
starlight rings
in the ear
a solar tinnitus
those
suns
consume
themselves
in bright
ultra-violence
as
snowmelt
slicks
the
downslope
as
a mountain
lion
stills
her
head
and
inhales
a scent
Tom Laichas is author of Three Hundred Streets of Venice California (FutureCycle Press, 2023), Sixty-Three Photographs from the End of a War (3.1 Press, 2021), and Empire of Eden (The High Window Press, 2019). His recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Moth (Ireland), Salt, Jabberwock, Blue Unicorn, Softblow, Stand, and elsewhere. He lives in Venice, California.
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