In the flashy stole
of the Fox
Fur Nebula, hydrogen
glows cherry-pop
red with radiation,
intensely effusing from
Hot Young Stars—
but I am down
to earth
among these ember-
tipped bushes
in Rio Grande Gorge,
in the red of the cliffs
and the rust of the road
where the world
is heating
to a piping tipple
of mulled wine while
a Household Name
hawks bras with faux
nipples so hard
no matter how
hot it is, you’ll always
look cold
and startups chip ice
from Arctic glaciers,
shipped to float
as cubes
the rich will chew
at boujee bars
in Dubai—Diamonds
are Forever—
unlike icebergs,
but thank god these tits
stay perky
in perpetuity
and those protostars,
well, the pressure
builds, fusion begins,
their primal cry
a combination
of radiation and stellar
wind, contorting
the nebula
into amoebous shapes
mimicking
familiar things,
each sidus winking to us
to wish upon them
so as not to tumble
into ill-starred disaster
when things are not
what they seem—
us, just fools
of heavenly compulsion
heading for scarlet
combustion—
letting heaven
and nature scream.
Note: In late 2022, Greenland startup Arctic Ice began shipping glacier ice to cocktail bars in the UAE. In October 2023, Kim Kardashian launched SKIMS Ultimate Nipple Bra, featuring built-in, raised fake nipples.
Talia Pinzari is a poet and public relations director from New England living in Austin, Texas. Her work appears in Salamander Magazine, EVENT Magazine, SWWIM, The Shore Poetry, The Museum of Americana, Berkeley Poetry Review, Lily Poetry Review, Pangyrus, Ibbetson Street, Mulberry Literary, and elsewhere.