Mark A. Fisher

Stirring Earl Grey
 
my morning routine
recombines atoms
tossed like dice in a game
Einstein’s god refused to play
like Yahtzee at midnight
when you have to be up
early the next day
drinking transformed
sunlight
and water
and dirt
from across this Earth
tousled by butterfly wings
into unpredictability.

Mark A. Fisher is a writer, poet, and playwright living in Tehachapi, California. His poetry has appeared in Angel City Review, A Sharp Piece of Awesome, Penumbra, Young Ravens Literary Review, and many other places. His first chapbook, drifter, is available from Amazon. His second, hour of lead, won the 2017 San Gabriel Valley Poetry Chapbook Contest. His poem “there are fossils” came in second in the 2020 Dwarf Stars Speculative Poetry Competition. His plays have appeared on California stages in Pine Mountain Club, Tehachapi, Bakersfield, and Hayward. He has also won cooking ribbons at the Kern County Fair.