Don’t Look Up
By Kate Colby
The name of that lake,
the Russian one;
if the pig-hearted man
still lives. When my
pie chart of what
I need to know is
complete, scratch
on my plaque: she
was one in a hundred
percent circumference.
Some kids broke into
the mausoleum, threw
the bones around,
which is one way to
see a thing incomplete
with context. I was fine.
Seems old-fashioned,
even, now the cave
is hard to find behind
the wall of googly eyes.
Source: Poetry (April 2026)


