Poetry
Metal Alexandria
Fiberoptic scrolls on
Gold and copper shelves
Within your architecture
Of aluminum alloy
Amorphous Alexandria
Terabytes coalesce as
Castles in the sky
You suffuse our skin
Flow through our
lungs
And cannot feel your touch
Tragic Alexandria
How will you finally die?
Will you crumble like a tower?
Will you flicker like a flame?
Or will you
dance
like
ashes
in wind?
the
I was formed while separated Eggs extracted sperm vacated
..................Column Break..................I was with someone in the womb Sisters shared a pulsing
tomb
I even while incubated
I sing in no syncopation Bow to no one’s expectation Of these persons’ integration
..................Column Break..................
Felt my single soul
..................Column Break..................Just at birth in that white room I
I bear my love even though she Would vanish to be rid of me Determined that we cannot be
Two halves of a whole
I’ll escape my bonds one day Seize freedom and carve a new way And no one then will ever
say she’s
..................Column Break..................She never really thought it through That butchering she’ll
suffer to Detach herself just to eschew
One magnetic pole
My name is Lorelyn Nolte. I am a double major in Creative Writing and Professional Writing at Miami University, and I hope to work as an editor after graduation. I plan to write mainly fantasy and horror novels in my spare time, although I also enjoy creating poetry and short stories.