Michael J. Galko

An ugly fish,
scraped metal scales,
blotched,
sucking at rocks
beneath the docks.

Or a skein of skin
sun-dried and bleached,
holding the thump 
of a wave– drum as verb
and reverb.

MICHAEL J. GALKO is a scientist and a poet who lives and works in Houston, TX. Michael is the owner, creator, and curator, of “Haiku House”, a residential art project less than a mile from downtown Houston. Michael was a Pushcart Prize nominee in 2019 and his poems and haiku have appeared in dozens of poetry and haiku-themed journals over the past few years, including Gargoyle, Gulf Coast, Paterson Literary Journal, Right Hand Pointing, Noon: Journal of the short poem, descant, Frogpond, and The Heron’s Nest.