Past Tense Jewelry
My engagement ring dozes
in a square blue satin box
worn a year then removed….
Casey Aimer (he/him) holds master’s degrees in both poetry and publishing. He works for a non-profit publishing science research articles and is a founder of Radon Journal, an anarchist science fiction semiprozine. His poetry has been featured in Space and Time Magazine, Apparition Lit, Star*Line, Heartlines Spec, and many more. An SFPA and SFWA member, he has been nominated for both the Rhysling Award and Pushcart Prize, and can be found on Bluesky.
My engagement ring dozes
in a square blue satin box
worn a year then removed….