In “Stages of Growth,” the poet imagines the different stages
a sentient species goes through as it (hopefully) survives and
evolves into cosmic awareness.
Stages of Growth
1
Filling the pit of endless want
Tech toys and gadgets
Breathing in existence
You will be twitchy for a while
Your devices are crying for attention
2
Passion and wonder dance together
A global landscape of miracles
Dreams wander the streets
Cloudtrees bear lightning fruit
Surrealism is a lifestyle
3
The end of loneliness
Merging of mind and spirit
There is no otherness
Hello oblivion—
Why were you so scary?
by Miguel O. Mitchell
Miguel O. Mitchell, PhD (he/him) is a Black speculative poet, SFF author, visual artist, and retired chemistry professor. He has published poems in Dreams and Nightmares, Eye to the Telescope, Scifaikuest, and Scarlet Dragonfly Journal, and Star*Line. He has also published short stories in Fantasy and Scarlet Leaf Review.
