This is how it’s going to go down: grain silos & power grids, slingshots dot the Susquehanna, belaying the phone lines in sine wave & synapse, a plat of McMansions splatter a forest, new-mown grass in lawn-brite hypergreen. Unspooled wire to the foosball palace, & a grove of bucket trucks off 81.
-Andrew Zawacki
originally published in Conjunctions 56: Terra Incognita: The Voyage Issue (2011).