A Poem by Martin Willitts, Jr.

Pisces Constellation

 

Note: Greek: Ikhthyes (the Fishes); Sumerian: KU (the Fish)

 

 

When stars swim, it is time to cast out nets of regret.

When blackness swallows light, our hearts are gills.

 

The stream of spawning stars

are on a mating run where only a few survive.

 

Where are the dead among this swimming?

What continues when everything ends?

 

Where do these treacherous rapids end?

 

 

 

Martin Willitts Jr has four full length poetry collections and over 20 chapbooks including recently, “Late All Night Sessions with Charlie “the Bird” Parker and the Members of Birdland, in Take-Three” (A Kind Of a Hurricane Press, ebook, 2013). His forthcoming poetry books include “Waiting For The Day To Open Its Wings” (UNBOUND Content, 2013), “Art Is the Impression of an Artist” (Edgar and Lenore's Publishing House, 2013), “City Of Tents” (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2013), "A Is for Aorta" (Seven Circles Press, e-book, 2013), "Swimming In the Ladle of Stars" (Kattywompus Press, 2013),  and he is the winner of the inaugural Wild Earth Poetry Contest for his full length collection “Searching For What Is Not There” (Hiraeth Press, 2013).