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Megan Wildhood
A/B Testing
A planet,
pushed into the black blanket like a button, life roiling around on its thinnest layer amid smoke from the nostrils of volcanoes dense blasts of weather, pressure to bloom beyond simple survival, now rolling full circle “Push record.” back to questions My assistant, of survival. DataHead 12-06.1, Preservation: complies is it about more than data? and the only camera The only ship on the whole ship in the known darkness that wasn’t rolling to carry the bytes for life begins gobbling is...sinking is not atmospheric pressure, the word, for there truly soil density, is no up or down. population spreads No wonder the captains per country - do not know right or wrong. an endless list An endless list of measures - of things that could go wrong bit by planetary bit. absorb their time The pictures take like a hydrocarbon-flooded approximately 12.072 atmosphere chugs sunlight. minutes to complete. It takes years, The moment it does, but by the time I count to ten. you notice, My turn to push a button. you may not have time Smoke curls around Africa, to debate their origin. the Atlantic splits in two, Cape Town will be out then five, then ten, of water, Bangladesh continents go ash, millions and San Francisco of miles of skin go liquid will be under it. at a rate DataHead 12.06-1’s But big brothers beat glass better be capturing up the bullies; technology through the expanding rings saves of red and scream and energy (the way a good guy transfer and all I felt is a tiny, with a gun saves). brief recoil under my thumb? |
Biography
Megan Wildhood (she/her/hers, prefers identity-first language) is a Seattle-based creative writer, scuba diver and social-services worker known for her large, idiosyncratic earring collection. Her poetry chapbook, Long Division (Finishing Line Press, 2017), ruminates on sororal estrangement and volleying the challenges of growing up on the planet that’s very nearly aflame. An excerpt of her novel manuscript was published by AMP Hofstra’s literary magazine in May 2019. Her other work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Sun, and Yes! Magazine. She regularly writes for Real Change and Mad in America. She wants to connect with other weary humans around issues of mental and emotional distress, creating real community from the ashes of individualism and finding real hope if only as an act of defiance, in these tattered days.
Twitter: @MNRWildhood |