A Climate Change

February 19, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

Today we fly out of Tucson, Arizona at the end of a trip with ten physics and biogeography students. We visited the desert, Biosphere 2, and the University of Arizona astronomy department with its telescope and Planetarium. They learned about Mars exploration, climate change, black holes, and space-time. ~ A seed for the future was […]

Double Blind

February 18, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

i revel in my cryptic ways for nature loves to play charades ~ Everything is a trick of inner and outer light. © M.G. Iannucci 2019 Art by Patricia Erickson, The Guardian

Fathoms

February 16, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

convection moraine the ethereal domain as your easing breath marks the passing stratus refrain digit stirred icing you roll me on this ephemeral sea wrapped in cotton batting marching toward the sun one on one a sublimating sum ~ © M.G. Iannucci 2019 Photo: (Mine) Clouds over Chicago. Traveling to Tucson with my students on […]

Levity

February 15, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

i stretch skies beyond sight a fusion foretelling the swelling rise that slips and twirls tendrils in a drizzle of mist that wreaths my thighs the liquid lap of lapsing as i forget to remember things in the tender gazing of your ways and i gather these cerulean days with aching arching arms bundling love […]

The Ways We Love

February 12, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

tilt your morrow to mine fill me with the marrow of the sublime as i pitch and pine for the pungent line in the bluegray ridges of your eyes ~ white oak smoked and soaked with your hunger for my burgundy brine fermented in the artifact of gravitational rhyme ~ for life is not a […]

Nuclear Proliferation

February 10, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

the release of neutral buoyancy untangled from rubble awake amidst sleep traveling within the meniscus of being invisible to the unseeing kelp fronds streaming a swallow not a gull the role of my life’s destiny and i know after i picking the lock of an inner mystery i embrace a human consistency the creativity that gathers […]

IUPAC Naming

February 9, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

typeset currency watermarked against deception the reception of truth that twists and glides as i swan dive from the last rhyme tethering this mind to the thin line of generative thought the steady ways between our gaze where shadows drop their glare evidently aware that I know we are of the one soul and i […]

Indurated (spoken word poetry)

February 8, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

borders boundless and you assist in softening the last of my resistance my doors flung wide i bend toward the side that birthed my rib and we kiss the scars as twins of stars in each other’s arms we share a point of heart that knows no distance ~ © M.G. Iannucci 2019 Art by […]

Listen to “Letters for a Lover” (spoken word poetry)

February 7, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Letters for a Lover