that water’ll get to ya. By Tom Pescatore

The birthplace of the atomic bomb

a can of lifeless Arizona ice tea

the mushroom cloud of hydrogen gas

burning the retina of the atmosphere

rising at slow motion detection

the native fungi of the america continent

national lifeform of the cause

a marshmallow Armageddon

released in the breaking of a tab

Tom Pescatore can sometimes be seen wandering along the Walt Whitman bridge or down the sidewalks of Philadelphia's old Skid Row. He might have left a poem or two behind to mark his trail. He claims authorship of a novel the Boxcar Bop (RunAmok Books, 2018) and the poetry travel journal Go On, Breathe Freely! (Chatter House Press, 2016).