Mist rising from the field, the swollen brook, like decisiveness by Michael J. Galko

the storm-fallen tree
needs clearing

in the farmer’s barn,
above the hoof-ground hay,

thirty-three axes are sharp–

one of them
has the right heft



Michael J. Galko is a Houston-based scientist and poet. In the past year he has had poems published or accepted at Dark Matter, bottle rockets, Failed Haiku, Presence Haiku, One Sentence Poems, Dos Gatos Press, The Ocotillo Review, The Red River Review, and The West Texas Literary Review.