Chicken Big
Everybody would have
listened to that Jersey Giant
announce the firmament
plummeting down onto our heads
in a rich baritone, deep
as an asteroid crater—
like Orson Welles
on the radio, warning
of made-up Martians
and making everyone turn
away from each other
to gawk at the welkin
with worry and wonder.
Noel Sloboda
currently lives in York, Pennsylvania. Among his chapbooks, the latest are Creature Features (Main Street Rag Publishing, 2022) and Everyday Divine
(Cervena Barva Press, 2021). His collections are Our Rarer Monsters (sunnyoutside,
2013) and Shell Games
(sunnyoutside, 2008).