"Infinite Blanket"

E. A. Hanninen - 2008

      Jeff Calhoun

            Notes from the Apollo Space Flight

When I was eight, Grandma knitted an afghan.
I remember patio nights, soft yarn,
how the stars didn't seem so far away.

One night, we watched a comet
slip across the night sky,
gold sliding on ebony.
A week later, a satellite
fell like a mechanized angel from heaven.

Now, I am floating in space
thinking of Grandma's cinnamon applesauce,
hoping heaven is like the embrace of an afghan,
wishing it wasn't so quiet to drown on nothing.

Medieval Device, ca. 1400s

Jeff Calhoun's writing credits include Mannequin Envy, Mimesis, elimae, Blood Orange Review, Centrifugal Eye, Stirring, and Triplopia. He recently received Best of the Net and Pushcart nominations for poems published in 2007. When he's not mining the human genome for patterns or found poems, he's probably dreaming about banana pancakes or chocolate milkshakes.

Jeff is a regular contributor to The Centrifugal Eye.


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