Alpha Man is almost off the grid.
Tall and wiry,
his frame has seen several decades of training,
cross-country skiing, hiking the high peaks,
and on his performance bicycle
propped up on the red stand in the great room.
He spends most of his time in the woodshop,
where he now turns a bowl from hardwoods.
Tonight, he will consider the evolution of SpaceX satellites
spinning in their precise orbit
as three female deer devour the clover outside his door.
As he questions the herd mind
within his self-sustained orbit.
Straddled on the leading edge with Elon,
wheels racing up the mountain road.
1/7/26
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C. S. De Dona
Author, Poet, Photographer, domestic violence survivor, and naturalized immigrant, Cornelia is currently an Arts and Letters member of The Southwest Florida Branch of The National League Of American Pen Women.
Cornelia lived in Kaneohe, Hawaii, for thirty-six years. Also, seven years in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York. She now resides in North Fort Myers, Florida.
Her poems and photography are published in print, online, and in Rain Bird, a literary and art journal of the University of Hawaii's Windward Community College (2008-2013).
In 2013, Cornelia received Rain Bird's Kolokolea Poetry Prize for her poem, "Speaking French."
In 2016, her chapbook "Hawaiian Time," entered in the National League of American Pen Women's Vinnie Ream contest, was awarded third place in their inaugural multi-discipline category.
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