Darrell Petska The Poet’s Life as a Dog Collared with words, I trot nose to the tracks of others whose auras, promising more than shuttered faces can tell, taunt like maddening rabbits forever evading my reach. Darrell Petska is a retired university engineering editor from Madison, Wisconsin, and that’s all he has to say about […]
Read MoreDarrell Petska A Million Years When I am part of the fossil record, along with the McDonald’s on the corner and the Social Security Administration, and dinosaurs and lowly tardigrades may have proved far more resilient and long-lived than inventive humankind, whatever comes to replace us, walking, crawling, levitating or running in place, might look […]
Read MoreDarrell Petska Primitive Life Four billion miles from home, our proxied eyes see clearly icy Pluto’s secret heart yet upon our bed’s small plain we freeze, eyeless and unfeeling, our inky hearts evading detection even from ourselves. Darrell Petska cut short his career as university editor to focus on his own writing, which has appeared […]
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