Boona Daroom

MERCY

In letters to state regulatory boards and in interviews

glaciers play an important role in holding back ice that

will raise the world’s oceans four feet once melted.

You might not be looking to solve ax² + bx + c = 0 but

despite the occasional splatter burn nudists say their

relationship to eating is healthier without clothing.

When there’s an injury timeout, they go to commercial.

The back-left tire on the Toyota pickup is hissing like a

snake but the jack on hand was built for a smaller car

now on display beside a Rembrandt in a German museum.

The only thing keeping me here and dry is just visiting.

When vaping was a disruptive alternative to cigarettes

large areas of Europe went from cropland to woods

and returned to Earth today after 328 days in space.

Baghdad today is full of paintings, sculptures and asphalt.

Lawyers have used nondisclosure agreements to maintain

up to 22 new coal-burning power plants, artificial intelligence

and vanity internet addresses. When the asteroid struck

Earth 66 million years ago it wiped out 75% of all species.

It felt complicated, a little inevitable and like a love story

one clinging with all its might to a wet rock like a barnacle 

on an alcoholic surf, stranded and hardening as the tide 

draws out sweat and light along the East River bike lane.