{"id":5070,"date":"2018-12-30T16:44:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T22:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=5070"},"modified":"2018-12-30T20:17:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T02:17:45","slug":"alan-toltzis-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=5070","title":{"rendered":"Alan Toltzis (series)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alan Toltzis (series)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

Goldfish<\/span><\/h2>\n

They grew waddling fat\u2014
\norange and white globes
\ngliding through green waters
\nto feast on insects and algae,
\nflakes and pellets tossed into the pond,
\ntheir own eggs and fry.<\/p>\n

\n

Beggars<\/span><\/h2>\n

Habit taught them greed
\ngulping at food\u2019s satisfying promise
\nwhenever I neared
\nsending shadows across the surface
\nthat drew their pleading lips
\ninto the alien air asking
\nmore, more, more.<\/p>\n

\n

Binge<\/span><\/h2>\n

Where I saw thin and yellowing locust leaves
\nskittering through air like celebration,
\nthey saw something that might be gorged upon\u2014
\nswallow, spit, swallow again.<\/p>\n

\n

63.8 Degrees North<\/span><\/h2>\n

Earth angled into its inhospitable orbit
\ntilting farther from the sun
\nthe water stiffened
\nas its molecules expanded, aligned, slowed,
\ncrystallizing from the rocky edged shore
\ninward towards its core,
\nzeroing past zero.<\/p>\n

\n

Deep Winter<\/span><\/h2>\n

Locked below a thickening block of ice,
\nthe fish
\nslowed
\ntoo,
\ndrifting
\ndownward
\nto wait, weightless
\nin watery space,
\namid cold blankets of sludge and debris,
\nthe rotten remnants of their waste,
\ntime rotating forward all around them.<\/p>\n

\n

Alan Toltzis <\/strong>(<\/span><\/em><\/span>alantoltzis.com<\/a>), the author of <\/em>49 Aspects of Human Emotions and <\/em>The Last Commandment, had a lovely goldfish pond once upon a time.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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