One Poem by Paul Edward Costa

 

Ethereal Ink Bleeding Through

 

A time when Star Barons sewed subtle writing

through heavens high above any earth-bound heads,

it was enough in an era that eventually ebbed

into new sets of nebulous notations

that needed to be

spelt out plainly in searing starlight.

But still, people down there didn’t alter their demeanor

so priests out of space passed through a purple dusk

in gear of grey robes below gyroscope wreaths.

They looked all around

and found how the humans

                 deleted their sight

                 in an act of blind fear

                 or what they felt

                     was their only remaining

                     way of resisting

                             an incalculably vast

                                  egotistical will.

Paul Edward Costa is a literary artist who has been featured in many Canadian poetry reading events and who has published over 60 poems and stories in literary journals such as Train: A Poetry Journal and Bewildering Stories. His flash fiction collection "God Damned Avalon" is available from Mosaic Press. He served as the City of Mississauga's Poet Laureate and won the Mississauga Arts Council's Emerging Literary Arts Award.