Weekly Poem: 'Disrupted Motion'

**Disrupted Motion** By Karena Youtz Disrupted motion of three heavenly bodies In slow soft eclipse a shadow sphere overtook a pale green disk My son crawls into my bed with a dream of earth quickly gulped by a black hole "Were you on the earth?" "Yes." "How scary." Could not comfort that or this. Just go back alone, but not tonight. Predatory cougars among joggers feel safer than overwhelming glacier melt A nest is being threshed, our private shared dropping sleep Wolves, bear, deer and planets die through us Will the desert and forest shift into dreams life become random barely remembered unsayably important Only once I wished I lived someplace more stable than earth   Karena Youtz is a poet who lives and writes in Boise, Idaho. She also writes lyrics for her husband Doug Martsch, lead singer for the Boise-based indie rock band "Built to Spill":http://www.builttospill.com/. Last year, her collection of poems, "The Shape Is Space," was published by Privity Press. Early next year, a collection called "Transfer Tree" will be published 1913 Press.