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May 2015
John Kropf
kropferama@gmail.com
I am an attorney and writer living in Arlington, Virginia.  I have two books to my name: Unknown Sands: Journeys Around the World's Most Isolated Country, a first hand account of traveling the central Asian country of Turkmenistan and a legal reference book that has nothing to do with poetry.   I keep a blog on books and poems on an unscheduled basis, http://compulsivelyaimless.blogspot.com/  I'm currently writing stories centered around a crayon factory started by my great grandfather.

God's Apartment


With the most powerful telescope
scientists look past the big bang
into God’s apartment
and glimpse a nightstand
next to the futon.
There's a lava lamp
— birthday gift
from his older sister — 
containing slow motion
milky blobs
other universes
including ours
they strain to see
what’s on the bookcase
but it’s just out of sight.





Lines of Communication


Coast-to-coast:

   Sail cirrus wisps — 
   Rise smoke signals — 
   Trek Lewis and Clark — 
   Gallops the Pony Express — 
   Steams the Union Pacific — 
   Spark dots and dashes — 
   Flies Vin Fiz — 
   Rings American Telephone and Telegraph — 
   Travel interstate 'evens' — 
   Streak airline contrails — 
   Text iPhone to Android
 — 

Communicating we’re One



©2015 John Kropf

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