The Starlight SciFaiku Review, Summer 2022 (issue #2)

28 | Anemone My Dreams by Matt Schumacher


Europa’s oceans
anemone my dreams
with life beneath ice

Tentacles form from
crimson storms, hidden oceans
under my eyelids

Europa’s ice hides
twice as much water as earth’s
oceans combined

Matt Schumacher

Matt Schumacher, who would very much enjoy a joyride in a flying saucer, edits the journal Phantom Drift and lives near a Paul Bunyan statue in Portland, Oregon. His sixth poetry collection, A Missing Suspiria de Profundis, was published by Greying Ghost Press in 2019.