Everything is prayer
With your
Soft
Magnificent
Inviting
Hopeful
Downy warm
Drowsy
Eyes wide open

We’re supine
Hot
Skin
On skin
Soliciting
The heaven
Between
Curled lips
Praying
To drip celestial babies
Into doubts
Eclipsed

Swallowing the shape
Swaddled in the warmth
Of my teeming tongue
The kaleidoscope you are
Eats corners
Blisters suns
Churns smooth
7 year itches
Into calm lion hums

Do you think
When
Our ancestors
Watch us play
They place bets
On which stars
Our explosions will burn
Today?

Anthony Xavier Jackson is a poet, songwriter, Substance Use Disorder Counselor, and musician living in Sacramento, California. In his poems, Anthony employs vivid imagery to immerse his readers. He has thus far been published in Tule Review 2023 and Sacramento Poetry Center’s Poet News. Anthony is a founding member of Sacramento’s GTFO Poetry collective whose work paired with his music may be found at soundcloud.com/anthony-x-jackson.