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Christine Stewart-Nuñez – Excess Rex

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By Mom Egg Review on February 13, 2021 Care, Poetry

Christine Stewart-Nuñez

 

Excess Rex

My preschooler fears fire, typhoons,
and lightning storms. He doesn’t chatter
about the Prairie School gas station
we scrutinized on vacation; he asks about
the wildfire described on the plaque
across the street. The burn and evacuation
happened years ago, I said, but he still woke
from nightmares where sparks landed
on his back. He selects books: What Makes
a Volcano? and The Ice Age. One snowflake
means blizzard. I heard the radio say
an ice storm’s on the way, he’ll whisper.

Months before his birth, his dad texted:
xavier rex. He liked the visual anchor
of ‘x;’ its meaning, ‘the new house,’
persuaded me. But neither of us knew
how to pronounce it. And now, this blond,
blue-eyed boy pronounces his own story:
how he hatched from an egg in Antarctica,
how his igloo caught fire. Does he sense

the convergence that caused his conception
despite his parents’ old age? Does he intuit
the serendipity that delivered him healthy,
whole? A body that dreams sparks sees no
distinction in extremes—everything’s possible.

 


South Dakota’s poet laureate, Christine Stewart-Nuñez, is the author of Postcard on Parchment (ABZ Press 2008), Keeping Them Alive (WordTech Editions 2010), Untrussed (University of New Mexico Press 2016), and Bluewords Greening (Terrapin Books 2016), winner of the 2018 Whirling Prize. This professor of English at South Dakota State University just released a new poetry anthology, South Dakota in Poems. Find her work at christinestewartnunez.com.

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