Speculative poetry by multiple Pushcart Prize nominee Ken Poyner, originally appearing in such journals as "The Iowa Review", "The Indiana Review", "Sequoia", "Sou'Wester" and others. The end of the world. Families dealing with the impossible. Indifference versus terror. Good and evil meet under a streetlight and discuss each other's bad habits. A carnivorous lawn. Communities dealing with their sudden irrelevance. A hopeful astronaut radios a now dead earth. Words to spike one's imagination. The world as, unfortunately, it often is.