Tipton Poetry Journal – Fall 2021
Give or Take Michael Estabrook Don’t waste time worrying about what you can’t change or fix she tells me all the time. The fancy-pants astrophysicist with the big glasses and crazy hair explains in logical scientific detail that in 5 billion years (give or take) our Milky Way Galaxy will collide with our neighbor the so much larger Andromeda Galaxy and be torn apart. Oh no! I think and begin to worry but abruptly realize – 5 billion years, seriously! Even I can’t be that stupid to worry about something 5 billion years down the road I tell myself as I see the Devil in his corner shaking his head not having to say anything this time for a change.
Michael Estabrook has been publishing his poetry in the small press since the 1980s. He has published over 20 collections, a recent one being The Poet’s Curse, A Miscellany (The Poetry Box, 2019). He lives in Acton, Massachusetts.
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