Today's poem is Absent Myths by Mark Melnicove. It is read by Gibson Fay-LeBlanc.
Absent Myths
I'll never hold a star
in hand—some things are
certain.
Never escape
death's entanglements, witness
the birth of languaging, ask
motionless
moths what I'd meant to.
Never hang-glide inside
my body, outrun
my toes, outfox a stone,
or look back
at the future, ahead to
what was or wasn't
in the material world
of cause and effect.