Atomic Wonder
The Vermont Studio Center has graciously invited Unrestricted writers Rowan Wilde Riggs and Chris Martin for a virtual reading and conversation this coming Monday at 7pm ET. You can sign up for the event here!
Rowan will be presenting poems from his forthcoming chapbook, Atomic Wonder. Here’s a sneak peak at the back cover copy:
welcome to a world bursting with invitations: to frolic, to be dappled, to bathe in radiant beams. to wonder at your own extravagance. to party in the confetti of the airborne washing machine. these poems dive straight into the nectar of life face-first and wouldn’t dream of holding back. as Riggs writes, “i look into the abyss, but i am choosing to fly.”
And here is the title poem:
the sun poem. when i bathe in radiant beams my soul stands cheering. they expose my inner sparkle. dazzling crystals. pungent kaleidoscope. tangent tide pools. clouds are advancing to squelch the party. we devour the shade to illuminate and again bathe in our atomic wonder.