artwork Maxfield Parrish (?)
rock in the hull
Anna Sykora
that rock is now famous
stuck in the hull
the split hull
of the sunken cruise ship
lying off the isle of Giglio
due they say to the captain's error
or if you believe in malevolence
that rock had been waiting
for millions of years
to get its photo
into the internet
Author Bio
Anna Sykora has been an attorney in NYC and teacher of English in Germany, where she resides with her patient husband and three enormous cats. To date she has placed 372 poems and 140 stories, mostly genre, in the small press. Motto: eat your rejections like pretzels...
Another poem by Anna:
hard evidence
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- Read Chaos Asunder - a poem.
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