George Moore
The Earth Speaks Back
From Popocatepetl, stars
look red, their eyes bloodshot
drift off, but sleep has
housed them in a turmoil
of struggle, the lovers failed
and the sky bleeds, knows somehow
the dead it takes up into itself
even as the seasonal gods
come and dress the caps in white
and the earth, silent for eons
speaks, dusts them with a plume
Bio
George Moore's sixth collection, Children's Drawings of the Universe will be published by Salmon Press in 2012. He has published poems in The Atlantic, Poetry, North American Review, Colorado Review. Nominated for the last two years for Pushcart Prizes, Best of the Web and Best of the Net awards, the Rhysling Award and the Wolfson Poetry Prize, Moore's work has appeared internationally this year in journals in Ireland, England, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Spain. He teaches with the University of Colorado, Boulder.