DNA Pollution in the Twenty-Second Century by Keith Mark Gaboury

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.