Matthew Isaac Sobin
Every Time We Visited Whole Foods You Asked
If I Wanted to Buy National Geographic
because we wanted to know if the God particle
was made by God or was of God
because different diseases yield parallel symptoms
because lacrimation is a mystery
& because nothing is more powerful
than galactic gas clearing the void
to see a house wren on a mission say no
to a flower bed, unearthing the tiniest life
sequestered within
because the nearness of death renders potent
remorse & regret
& the magnetic field dividing science & God
is best written as a compound word
how the only seafood that tempted us was the pink
pastel of the Crab Nebula
because magazine pages are impervious to psychic tears
because the words ‘irrevocable’ & ‘rivulets’
lacked connective tissue
because the infinite pulsed undimmed
inside your breast, at our fingertips
Matthew Isaac Sobin’s (he/him) first book was the science fiction novella, The Last Machine in the Solar System. His poems are in or forthcoming from SoFloPoJo, Orange Blossom Review, Ghost City Review, JAKE, MAYDAY Magazine, Roi Fainéant Press, The Hooghly Review, Stone Circle Review, Hog River Press, and elsewhere. He received an MFA from California College of the Arts. You may find him selling books at Books on B in Hayward, California. He is on Twitter @WriterMattIsaac and Instagram @matthewisaacsobin. His Linktree is linktr.ee/matthewisaacsobin.