A(tomic)lma Mat(t)er

I live among “Russians”
who are enslaved
by a different flag,
yet, we are of the same
vicious imperialistic ideology.

We are brothers and sisters
of gorgeous mother Gaia
who we use and abuse
and manipulate and personify.

We exist in the same
filthy crackpipe—
we both live
on the dark side
of the womb.

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Heath Brougher is the editor-in-chief of Concrete Mist Press. He was the recipient of the 2018 Poet of the Year Award and is a multiple Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee. He has authored twelve books, the most recent of which is Beware the Bourgeois Doomsday Fantasy (Sandy Press, 2024). Read other articles by Heath.