Youthful Core
// Tracy Dimond
The universe may be one billion years
younger than projected. This is
the ultimate I thought it was Friday,
but it’s only Wednesday moment.
Go ahead, a youthful core
can handle some destruction.
White knuckle the day, but like,
don’t lose my ashes in shipping delays.
I remember the outdoors.
Shoving the hose into the dirt
to watch the soil bubble
as childlike rage takes its naïve hold.
We’re not moving to the ocean
and I’m still holding these small salamanders
dug from the first layer —
ever forward we swim.