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Glyphs
by Jonel Abellanosa
After the artwork Metalmorphosis by John Reinhart (Wild John)
We know a civilization
of evolved protohominids
having words for "electromagnetic,"
"engineering" and "entropy"
We scoured continental shifts
for accidental caves, the Marianas
Trench for sunken "cities" — another
word existing in our growing
understanding of their language.
Our latest discovery is a grouping
of 17 metallic rods twisted
to form anxiety's elemental symbols,
cursive as the need to warn
the tribe of an impending
catastrophe — the volcanic
hunger of water
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Calbuco volcano, Chile. 2015.
Jonel Abellanosa resides in Cebu City, the Philippines. His latest book is Multiverse, from Clare Songbirds Publishing House. His poetry collection Sounds in Grasses Parting is forthcoming from Moran Press.
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