HALOS
Cameron Morse
GBM SURVIVORS TO THRIVERS
I said goodbye to
my sister this morning
collected her angel wings
*
California mandarins
sweet • seedless • easy peel
*
This morning tore
open her ocean spray.
*
Amtrack a quick
rustle in interstitial trees
three four cars
frosted passenger windows
passing past passed away
*
My father from the sunshine
state my infant father
daughter gumming
the translucent sac
tonguing pulpy globs
toward the crumb catcher
*
This morning
the promised snow
fall fell felled
my sister slept
on a cloud
*
Omi greens the sleeve
of my hoodie
avocado finger grit
catches me
mopping her tray
Cameron Morse is Senior Reviews editor at Harbor Review, a poetry editor at Harbor Editions, and the author of six collections of poetry. His first, Fall Risk, won Glass Lyre Press’s 2018 Best Book Award. His latest is Far Other (Woodley Press, 2020). He holds and MFA from the University of Kansas City—Missouri and lives in Independence, Missouri, with his wife Lili and two children. For more information, check out his Facebook page or website.