Matthew Herskovitz

In the Event of Moon Disaster

Inspired by: Alejandro Derieux Cerezo, “Elegy For a Man-Body”

            fate has ordained
I was there. Stuck on the rock

                        that outlines me—this
                        is the grass that grows

between us.     You and me—
            where
                                    did you think the first
                        seeds’d
                             come from? Where did you think
            my water                     would go? It

flows where it flows, where it flows, where water belongs,
                        in the cracks between earth.
They sent me to flourish, 

                to give it my all. Secular rites.
Memory blessing.

                                    My body
                                      to the deepest of the deep

            I have no choice
            but to love this place:

pebbles dust
beneath me

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Matthew Herskovitz is a poet from Baltimore, Maryland. He is currently a senior studying English at the University of Maryland, College Park with plans to pursue an MFA in poetry in the fall. His works have been published in Stylus, Laurel Moon and Chameleon Magazine.