Timescales
Cloud-capped high-rises
collapse behind an electric
fence, plankton drift
in the depths of an urn.
At last I understand
the rhythm of fissured
glaciers. Our mattress,
love: a sheet of ice.
While you sleep
I watch the last trees
dissolve into soot.
Derek Graf's poetry collection, Green Burial, won the 2021 Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award for a First or Second Book of Poetry. My poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Journal, Sugar House Review, Meridian, and elsewhere. I serve as Clinical Assistant Professor of English at Yeshiva University and Associate Poetry Editor at West Trade Review.