Tanis Franco: one poem

What are you

simmering

garbage?

 

Here are the things that are eternal:

1. Garbage

2. Others

 

I’ll become a guardian

of garbage.

A sailor senshi

of trash
and light.

 

Her planet of

blue and black

clear and green

bags

glinting.

 

She accepts this trash,

this leftover space debris

and protects it

for as long as it wishes to remain.

 

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Tanis Franco is the author of Quarry, published by the University of Calgary Press. Their poems have also been published in magazines and anthologies such as Grain, Room, Vetch, and Best American Experimental Writing 2018, among others.