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Alexa Mergen

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Alexa Mergen's poems appear in print and online journals including Kritya,
Packinghouse Review, Pedestal Magazine, Sow's Ear Poetry Review, and in two
chapbooks, "Three Weeks Before Summer" and "We Have Trees." She leads community  workshops in poetry and writing with an emphasis on noticing how natural and  human-constructed worlds intersect. She lives in Sacramento with her husband,  journalist Matt Weiser.

Hand on Heart

I  pledge allegiance to the poems
Arisen from sorrow and joy,
And  to the truths contained therein,
One  art,
For  everyone,
Unifying,  with
Beauty  and regard for all.


Space
 
May we find when we die permanent  planets
                          hop-skip to playful  Pluto
                          march to Mars
                          swirl into the galaxy.
 Let the fearful remain on Earth 
                           ghosts
                           unfleshed among fleshed.
Send me 
to our moon 
                            by cold feet
                            for eternity :
                            gibbous, crescent, sliver, new, full : to 
                            evermore wax and wane as 
lovers
                             quiver turtles burrow
                             owls scream wolves 
                             yelp madmen 
                             rave in gauzy light.