Tay Greenleaf
David Bowie is Dead
For some reason all I can think about is this myth about an English explorer from the 1900s
who discovered a crater-like hole in the depths of the Tibetan forest.
The hole, exhibiting all the layers of the earth down to the hot core
was lined with bodies of some otherworldly, undead creatures
who seemed just like us but were decidedly not of this earth.
They say the candid faces gazed at the Englishman, reached upwards and called:
Oh! Humankind! Do you hear me? What is it like to be you?
I have been looking upwards for too long today.
But it’s hard to think about looking anywhere else.
Over a million people took to the streets to sing for you,
But I’m walking home in a silence so deep I can hear my soles giving out.
I see the stars move with me and at once I feel whole again.
Oh! Otherkind! Do you hear me? What is it like to be you?
David Bowie is Dead
For some reason all I can think about is this myth about an English explorer from the 1900s
who discovered a crater-like hole in the depths of the Tibetan forest.
The hole, exhibiting all the layers of the earth down to the hot core
was lined with bodies of some otherworldly, undead creatures
who seemed just like us but were decidedly not of this earth.
They say the candid faces gazed at the Englishman, reached upwards and called:
Oh! Humankind! Do you hear me? What is it like to be you?
I have been looking upwards for too long today.
But it’s hard to think about looking anywhere else.
Over a million people took to the streets to sing for you,
But I’m walking home in a silence so deep I can hear my soles giving out.
I see the stars move with me and at once I feel whole again.
Oh! Otherkind! Do you hear me? What is it like to be you?
Tay Greenleaf is a poet and journalist in Asheville, North Carolina. She holds a degree in creative writing from the University of North Carolina and continues to write poetry while quibbling with her resident two gophers Karl Marx and Karl Marx’s Friend. Her work can be seen in local lifestyle magazines such as Bold Life and WNC Magazine and literary publications such as Headwaters, Orison Books, and Abberation Labyrinth.