Fusion
by Antony Owen
I
am
atoms.
A blitzkrieg
of love and neurons.
A bombardier of blood cells
clothing my bones in ancestral cloaks.
I have a bombshell to drop on humanity.
Our skins are painted by an old dying sun
and the blue epidermis of godless skies
can be lifted by pyrocumulus clouds.
Satan is not a nuclear missile.
Man elects himself God!
Rain should not be black,
man should not be anything
but human in flawed construct.
Homes should have doorways
but there should be no locks.
Borders are made by ink.
Ink is a blackened rain
natural in our oceans
unnatural in skies.
Autumn oak
bomb on me.
I am a tree
of atoms
rooted
inside
earth.
Antony Owen is a writer of overlooked people and key defining events of post war societies, taking inspiration from his working-class background. His work has featured in Poetry International Europe and also been shortlisted for The Ted Hughes Award. His new and selected poems is our with Broken Sleep Books in Summer 2024