Mike Bonikowsky

Mike Bonikowsky lives in Melancthon, Ontario with his wife and kids. He works as a caregiver for men and women with developmental disabilities and writes poems when necessary.

Conductor

When it comes down, it comes down 

Out of the dark heart of the nimbus.

I can never see it coming

Until I can see nothing else.

It finds my outstretched fingers,

Travels down my reaching arms

To turn my bones to filaments,

And makes my heart to burn.

I should be obliterated,

Made so mortal a conductor

Of so furious a light,

But He grounded me before He struck

And being struck, I glow.

Read more of Mike’s work in his full-length novel The Shepherd of Princes, his chapbook Red Stuff, and in Solum Journal Volume II.