Ryan (Jiyul) Jang is a 10th-grade student at Stevenson School with a dedicated focus on environmental sustainability, agriculture, and agroforestry. Passionate about exploring the intersection of ecology and sustainable land management.
Maggots Bellies
The time will come
when I will go
I will decay
and I will grow
and die again
a million deaths
in maggots' bellies
and maggots' breath.
A million maggots
remove my brain
like severed links
of rusted chain
A scattered conscious
crawls out my ears
and disengages eighty years
To find new life
in a million forms
be washed away
by violent storms
but never again
by infinite chance
to mesh into
a human stance.
Worm to humus
to a root of grass.
Graveyard sand
crushed into glass.
A drop of vapor
in the sky
that's blown into
a cow's black eye.
A sparrow's lunch
on the road
and the dust that
helps my box corrode,
A million threads
spun a million ways
in omnipotent circles
of endless days...
Brian Gotta is a San Diego-based poet and author with a BA in English Literature from Indiana University. His poetry has appeared in Third Wednesday, Pink Ochre, Watertower Press, The Soliloquist, AC/DC Lit Magazine, and The Big ?, with additional work forthcoming in Blue Villa Magazine, Effable Press, and Cabbage Patch Magazine. BrianGotta.com | @booksbygotta Best wishes, Brian Gotta brian@booksbygotta.com.
