Poetry Contest Runner-Up
Tobias Wray
Sci-fi Aubade
Say God breaks his covenant
and floods return Manhattan to the deep
where future fisherman dive for pearls.
Say a diver blacks out from the pressure,
rises like a dark flare sent against the storm,
and surfaces, blooming on the heavy waves.
To the creatures below, he’ll sleepily wave
his arms like tendrils, like a hungry, beckoning thing
that survived the flood to become predator