Backyard Sputnik

In heaven
there’s patriotic cascades
of coagulated milk
in metal cans launching
from the Backyard Sputnik.

Words are reconfigured
into song
forms to show
where doors
have turned
bookends.

Pots and pans light the way
reflecting me onto
myself.

Jackie Reed

Jackie Reed is an avant-garde noise artist and poet based in Detroit, MI.