Ulrich Jesse K Baer

soft paddocks with god

clustered /crystal

ciphers the night

trundled

sidereal verses

grappled to

mineral mnemonics

submerged plates in

isostasy

alluvial deposits

still

emanating

trench worlds

devoured

auroras

delving un

selving

compasses

echo remnants,

the void ruins

the threshing floor

–incubating absence

come in canting

islands

nascent thunder tunnels in

forms

braiding wreaths

come back

germinating

come

millefleur to me

Ulrich Jesse K Baer received his MFA from Brown University in 2017. He has a poetry chapbook with Magic Helicopter Press (Holodeck One, 2017), a science fiction chapbook with Essay Press (At One End, 2020), and a full-length with Apocalypse Party (Midwestern Infinity Doctrine, 2021). He has been included in journals such as Pinwheel, Baest, The Tiny, and Bone Bouquet. He loves horses.