a cinquefoil’s polygon burnt cape, ha-ha bay, newfoundland

by Milan Parab

A Cinquefoil’s Polygon

Burnt Cape, Ha-Ha Bay, Newfoundland

five petals
of a pentagon,
540 degrees,
centre a glistening star
of silver foil   

within these polygons—
all shapes weather
a depression
of collapsing
ragged
twist of lime-
stone, splintering
spiralling,
frost and all,
into cracked
and crooked

Photo of Milan Parab

BIO: Milan Parab has been published in The Antigonish Review (2008), Cool Beans Lit (Summer 2025), The Fiddlehead (2008), Grain (Fall 2025), Lichen (2008), Paragon (Spring 2025), The Prairie Journal (2007), and Prism International (Issue 64.2), and has recently had his poem, “The Persian Rug” (Paragon Press), nominated for the Poetry Pushcart Prize 2025. He participated in BIPOC Writers Connect 2025. He is a teacher who lives in the St. John’s, NL with his partner and their children.