It’s always a sign of something—
heat wave, PMS, a lean harvest
It’s a sign of semiotics itself
Whole theologies are founded on crescents alone
When you can’t tell a train from a tornado
a satellite from Venus
a tweet from a tweet
you might as well hunker down to
munch some marketing
and wait for GE to turn on the tide
A three-time winner of Fountain Square’s Masterpiece in a Day poetry contest, Anne Laker received a Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship in 2016 for her Instagram exhibition project, @10000whens, featuring 30 years of her digitized diary entries. A recent poem, “Tibbs Drive-In,” was featured in The Indianapolis Anthology (2021, Belt Publishing).