August 5, 2025
Kal-El a refugee? That’s a sucker’s deep-state fable.
He’s the leading edge of thousands of Kryptonian invaders.
But look, up in the sky! – a man who’s brilliant and stable
Stands above the paved Rose Garden, holding all his legal papers.
In Metropolis USA, our homeland übermenschen
Detain the alien in tights for enhanced interrogation.
And the people shout in rapture, for this was prophesied:
Stick your arms out, Mr. President! We want to see you fly!
Click here to read David P. Miller on the origin of the poem.
Image: Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
David P. Miller’s collection, Bend in the Stair, was published by Lily Poetry Review Books in 2021. Nixes Mate Books published his Sprawled Asleep in 2019. His poems have appeared in Meat for Tea, Reed Magazine, About Place Journal, Tar River Poetry, Gramercy Review, Second Coming, The Ekphrastic Review, The Disappointed Housewife, and Nixes Mate Review, among other journals. David is a member of Boston’s Jamaica Pond Poets, and co-directs their Chapter and Verse literary reading series. He is a member of the New England Poetry Club’s Board of Directors, and is the recipient of a 2025 Tanne Foundation award.
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