Jake Rogers
Industrial Constellations
Tonight the stars are
a chiseled archipelago
mapping a future country
foreign to our lives now.
So vigorous their display
I fear they mean to
approach and incinerate
all that still remains, now.
And I, too small to slow
their advance, may only
marvel in their machinations.
Bio
Jake Rogers teaches English and coaches soccer at Saint Elizabeth University in New Jersey. He attended Hood College as an undergraduate and earned his MFA in Poetry from Drew University. His poems have previously appeared in the Rise-Up Review and the anthology Fuck Isolation: A Tribute to the Covid-19 Experience from Garden Oak Press, as well as Arts by the People's "Jump the Turnstiles" collaboration between poets, dancers and animators.