city skies flood with shimmering alien jellyfish
in the danger of evening, when your lover
looks otherworldly under pink dusk
sparkling star lips
and her electric soul is visible in her eyes
crackling madness
when she tells you her secrets and desires
and whispers promises as the sun extinguishes
and the city’s luminance seeps into her skin
twinkling blood kiss
the jellyfish come down and swallow her up
and you never glimpse those beautiful eyes again
because they are lost somewhere in deep space
blinking asterisk
turned to a dream-stream transmitting across eons
Logan Thrasher Collins is an author, futurist, neuroscientist, and synthetic biologist. He is also a student at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His poetry and short fiction have been published in Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, Abyss & Apex, Aphelion, and 365tomorrows. His synthetic biology research has been published in ACS Biochemistry. Logan’s poem “Neuraweb” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Rhysling Award.
