OUR BIRTHDAY
John Grey
A solar nebula
grabbed a chunk
out of a
molecular cloud
by gravitational collapse
and it spun and flattened
into a circumstellar disk
that, in turn,
formed a planet.
A single cell
came of age
after the ruckus,
asked, “Now what?”
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Stand, Washington Square Review and Sheepshead Review. Latest books, ”Between Two Fires”, “Covert” and “Memory Outside The Head” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in the McNeese Review, Santa Fe Literary Review and California Quarterly.