Art: The Guy by Alex Duensing

DNA POLLUTION IN THE TWENTY-SECOND CENTURY

At Easter supper,
I hacked up a storm cloud.

With my smokestack throat
choking Bryson sight
over fish eyes on china plates,

Charlie’s potato mouth
proclaims he passed on

his twenty-first century pollution
as a Kansas City, Kansas man

whose carbon toxins
seeped into our DNA’s shadow
through a generational backdoor.

Under family limelight,
my mother zaps open my chest

to reveal circulation
black like doves
flapping over our dirty lung populous.


About the author:

Keith Mark Gaboury earned a M.F.A. in creative writing from Emerson College. His poems have appeared in such publications as Eclectica Magazine, Five 2 One Magazine, and New Millennium Writings. After spending his days as a preschool teacher, Keith spends his nights writing poetry in San Francisco, California.

Art: The Guy by Alex Duensing
In the artist’s words:
Alex Duensing. Graduate of William Paterson and Columbia? Yes. Ran for St. Petersburg,
FL City Council? Yes. Won? No. Stopped Mayan Apocalypse on rooftop with performance art?
Yup. Strange but nice fellow? Clearly. Able to create mechanical engines that run completely on
the energy a person creates while appreciating a painting? On occasion.
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