MAN WITH RADIO
picks up three stations at once
from scrabbled dirt of UNIVERSE.
MAN HEARS SYMPHONY of alternative rock,
SOUL-CRUSHING sermon, and
used-car sale BONANZA.
SOUND IS PRODUCED:
NO ONE TO HEAR AGAIN—
not if they crawled from Everest
to the deepest Pacific trench
and recorded everything in-between—
THE SOUND! THE ONE AND ONLY!
SWAN-SONG OF CIVILIZATION!
In other news:
FEARLESS SQUIRREL
faces oncoming vehicle—
is CRUSHED
in slow-motion suicide.
NEON-GREEN PARAKEET escapes Earth
on clipped wings; Mars-bound—
DROWNS
in ANOXIC SKY.
The STORM-TRAILED SUNRISE
was faster than a thousand cameras—
‘NOTHING UNIQUE
is useless’
says ROOSTER IN AWE,
says HUMAN BRAIN,
says genetic
and environmental influence,
says the BIG BANG
in static from cosmic radiation
13.75 billion years old.
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The Editor-in-Chief for Touchstone 2011 is Lindsey Givens. She is a second year master's student in children's literature and she received her bachelor's in creative writing from the University of Arkansas in 2009.