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Like Fireworks, Far Off
As if chrysanthemum fireworks flaring
gold, blue, red—brief, phosphorescent
amoebas throb, pulse. Next, a galaxy
of green stars spins out of existence.
Then, a flurry of supernovas
flare and fade. After, a comet-like
streaking ends in a white flash. All the while,
a far off chorus of oohs and ahs
mingles with some last applause.
Then, for a moment, it seems like dawn.
Nick Conrad
Nick Conrad’s poems have appeared in Badlands, Blast Furnace, Blueline, Clackamas Literary Review, Clarion, Coe Review, The Comstock Review, The Cortland Review, Fourth River, Hawai’i Pacific Review, Kentucky Review, Mayday Magazine, Orbis (UK), Slipstream, Southern Poetry Review, Southword (Ireland), Split Rock Review, Stoneboat, Third Wednesday, Valparaiso Poetry Review, The Wayne Literary Review, West Texas Literary Review, and Wilderness House Literary Review. His first book of poetry, Lake Erie Blues, is due out from Urban Farmhouse Press in the Fall of 2020.