Robert Perchan

Well, what is the fate of polar
bear scat in the end, anyway?
Are we to imagine glaciers
littered with dark brown spoor
like vanilla ice cream sprinkled
with chocolate jimmies?
Sliced, does it become
Official NHL Hockey Pucks?
Do the Inuit call these hefty turds
Coconuts of the Arctic
and carve frozen faces on them
to peddle to tourists
who fly back home to Florida
and unpack their suitcases
among palm trees
and a most disagreeable odor?
And should you and I think twice
on a blistering summer’s day
before wrapping our lips around 
a creamy, chocolate frosted
global warming inside our heads?

ROBERT PERCHAN’s latest books are the comic futuristic novella Tropic of Scorpio (Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2022) and Last Notes from a Split Peninsula: Poems and Prose Poems (UnCollected Press, 2021). His short story collection “Shocks, Meester?” is out now from Spuyten Duyvil as well. His poetry collection Fluid in Darkness, Frozen in Light won the 1999 Pearl Poetry Prize. Bob continues to eat, drink and write in Busan, South Korea, under the bemused gaze of his translator wife, Mi-kyung Lee.