Mikha'El Dan

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summer sunset

looking out the picture window into the California sun.
the sunlight pouring down upon the stucco,
rattlesnakes under golden mountains.

acute, extreme, and doomed commitments,
flickering frontiers, phantasmagoric battlefields,
the hot wall of the butcher,
the coyotes close in and eat the flesh.

making pleasure more certain in seeming,
touch is metamorphosis.
garnered flowers, crushed, and grass.
searching, not because I love, but because I cannot.

the lingering sunset over the dark mountains.
the wind has a right to be here.

Mikha'El Dan is a PhD candidate in psychology and a father of three whose work explores the intersections of psyche and language. A published poet featured in Neologism Poetry Journal, Book of Matches and Glass Poetry Press, he bridges the analytical and the lyrical. He lives and writes in California.