I Read Poems: Lacus Solitudinis by Josh Pearce

 

Lacus Solitudinis by Josh Pearce in Kaleidotrope

A poem that dances lightly over several questions – the average colour of the universe, the average colour of humanity. What it means to be star stuff, what it means to be the universe knowing itself. If the universe is one are we all one, and then what use for the rest of the universe, or us, or the dead who are us. If we are one we are alone; if we are many we are alone.

The Latin name of for a small lunar mare (“sea”), the lake of solitude.

Read This: Dark poem inspecting the smallness and enormity of humanity in the universe
Don’t Read This: References a lot of odd ideas, comes to a bizarre conclusion