Arrokoth

by: Özge Lena

Insomnia shoots
across the roof
like an already dead star,
and I keep thinking
how the farthest object
ever visited looks
like a crippled foetus—
a stillborn dream.

It means sky
in an extinct language,
just like her name,
now bleeding into
my fallen future
buried with my youngest
when the evening air strikes
started tearing the sunset—

so innocently pink
that I wanted to rock
the sky
in my empty arms.

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Özge Lena is an internationally published poet who appears in The London Magazine, Modron Magazine, The International Times, and in numerous magazines across continents. Her ecological-themed poetry earned Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations and was shortlisted for the Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition, The Plough Poetry Prize, Ralph Angel Poetry Prize, and the Black Cat Poetry Press Nature Prize. Özge’s poetry has been featured in many worldwide anthologies and was showcased at Barnes & Noble for Poetry Month.