The Marbled Sigh

I feel like I’m always talking about the sun and sun-
light,
moon and stars, Sagittarius A* and its place
in my heart,
my place in the known world and escape from
                                                       a vicious tailspin.

This world a late-stage safe haven for a sea-
              faring cosmonaut.

I find it’s much easier to talk about the cerulean sky
than the earthly
woes
    —I’ve forsaken—
that lay me to sleep in my flowerbed
                                                    of transgressions.

 

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Born in 1997, Kevin Daniel Scheepers is an emerging poet from Pretoria, South Africa. He completed an MSc in Biotechnology in 2023, but always maintained a personal interest in the written arts, particularly poetry. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee and his work has previously been published in Brittle Paper, Emergent Literary, Audience Askew, Harrow House Journal, South Africa Poetry Magazine, Spillwords Press, Aorta Literary Magazine, Academy of the Heart and Mind, Soul Poetry, Prose & Arts Magazine and Feed The Holy, and is soon to be published in Chewers by Masticadores.