Orbit
“Astronomers Say Earth Has a Newly Discovered ‘Quasi-Moon,’
a Companion That Shares Its Orbit Around the Sun”
– The Smithsonian Magazine, 2025
I orbit you the way the Earth does the Sun, shining in your castoff, dancing in your heat.
I’ve made myself a gift to you, an homage to your body, your humor, your sky blue eyes.
How I searched for you, my love, how I refused to settle.
Then you showed up in the nick of time, and saved me. Each morning you rise to my
caress, your lips on mine, teasing me awake. If you asked me, I’d call this bliss.
Writer/Photographer, Alexis Rhone Fancher is published in Best American Poetry, Rattle, Verse Daily, The American Journal of Poetry, Plume, and elsewhere. Since 2012, she’s authored eleven poetry collections. Her photographs are published widely, including on the covers of Witness, Heyday, and Pithead Chapel. Coming Up: A Picture is Worth a Poet’s Words, photo portraits of 100+ Southern California poets, and CockSure, a full-length, erotic collection, both published by Moon Tide Press in early 2026. Sink Hole, a chapbook of pantoums about her sister’s recent death, will be released in January 2026 by MacQueens. For more information, visit www.alexisrhonefancher.com.
