Horrid Orders for a Plane. | Caleb Delos-Santos

Rise, you plane.
Swarm the sky,
You steel stain.
Make God cry.

Conquer, plane,
You man-spawn.
Become Cain.
Slaughter Dawn.

Why not, plane?
If you can,
Why not drain
Heaven’s pan?

Cinder, plane.
Grey each Blue.
Feast, witch-train.
Who’ll stop you?

 “Horrid Orders for a Plane,” is part of the collection title Leftover Poetry published through Cyberwit.net. 

Caleb Delos-Santos (2023) is a senior double majoring in Acting for the Stage and Screen and English at Azusa Pacific University. He recently published his first poetry book called A Poet’s Perspective through Cyberwit.net and won the APU Esselstrom Prize for Creative Writing in Poetry. Caleb has also published fifteen poems and one non-fiction with West Wind Magazine, Outrageous Fortune, GoldScriptCo, Bluepepper, Poetry Archive, Spectrum, Indian Periodical, Forbes and Fifth, North Dakota Quarterly, Madison Journal of Literary Criticism, and UNLV Creative Arts Journal. Today, he dreams of successful careers in writing and acting.