Cameron Morse

5.1 cm

Cameron Morse

Diameter the length of the middle knuckle of my index finder in right frontal lobe, falling short of golf ball tumor, the standard comparison for hail so big we bring one to the freezer as a keepsake, a for the sake of. I never measured it out by the light of my iPhone before

this growth is putting me out of business. My whole left arm is a power outage. Outrage consumes the tenements of my body. Pressed against a wall swiveling down the sewer drain what are they these cells that build precariously? What crawled out of the swamp? The same primordial sea spawned you and me, our machine life.

Cameron Morse is Senior Reviews editor at Harbor Review and the author of eight collections of poetry. His first collection, Fall Risk, won Glass Lyre Press’s 2018 Best Book Award. His book of unrhymed sonnets, Sonnetizer, is forthcoming from Kelsay Books. He holds an MFA from the University of Kansas City-Missouri and lives in Independence, Missouri, with his wife Lili and three children. For more information, check out his Facebook page or website.