A meteor hits McAllen Texas
sends a sonic boom but doesn’t
even call his own mother.
She fears he has broken
up in the atmosphere.
She searches the sky for her
thousand-pound baby breaking
into the troposphere.
I worry my children
have been hit by a meteor
in McAllen Texas.
They live in New York
but like to travel
in beams of light creating sonic booms.
I haven’t heard from them in years
search for them in the night
fear each siren is taking them
a second time, a final time, I’m
hoping some star will text me back.
Heather Dorn is a neurodivergent, bisexual, poverty-class poet who grew up everywhere but currently lives in upstate where she teaches. Her work can be found in the American Poetry Review, Ragazine, Writer’s Resist, and similar places. She likes to kiss her cat and wishes she had a washing machine.
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