Find Your Appetite

Dancing shoes tap you
to a vacuum of newness.

Samples advertise, serve 
in satellite dishes. Shoppers 

In waterless
synchronous swim

Peruse aisles of hieroglyphs
eyeing furious calm. Witness 

The blossom of atomic 
energy in an asterisk!

The cashier is beaming, 
teeth screening television. 

Her fingernails click, flash
illuminated cuticles.

Folds of fiat cash
close in an open palm.

Organics are electric and music runs 
clear. Reheat. Release. Appear.

Copyright © by Kevan Copeland

A version of this poem appeared previously in Strip Mall Magazine.