Queen in a Jar

by Robin Peroldo 

For Aaron Iannitelli

Turn up those Crosley spun tunes

and righteous Sabbath hymns.

Killer Queen on worn out vinyl,

veins swell with rocket fuel blue.

We lift our arms and ignite …

Blast off! Across the cosmic sky,

our deep space sovereign-paradise.

Flying higher than God ever took us

and you can’t bring us down again,

anymore then you could keep

Freddy Mercury in a jar.

Robin Peroldo is a proud Florida writer from Volusia County. Her work has appeared in the Orlando Weekly, The Scribe, Seminole State College’s student newspaper, and Revelry Literary Magazine. She was also the 2007 prize winner of the Stephen Caldwell Wright Poetry Awards.