Monday, 30 June 2014
Poem: "Under Two Moons"
UNDER TWO MOONS /
“BANDITS OF THE STARWAYS”
(from ‘INCREDIBLE SCIENCE FANTASIES’)
cornering the night TOO FAST
thru the crash-barrier
4 wheels to the wind
constellations spray like shingle
read this comic-book once
where a man takes a cab
that’s REALLY a disguised
space-craft piloted by a
green Martian
hunting experimental humans,
central-locking slams down caging him
& they launch from the highest loop
of the cloverleaf like a sudden red
insect soaring against the moon’s disc,
the dupe scrabbling at the glass
as the M-way shrinks to a relief map
& continents recede beneath him,
the blackness of deep space
folding in around them as they
motor to the vivisection labs
of Mars Central…
for one long second it’s like
I too have made it up thru
the stratos-fear…
then the windshield shatters
and worlds
white
out
Published in:
‘THE MENTOR no.62’ (January 1989 - Australia)
‘AH POOK IS HERE no.3’ (August 1994 - UK)
and the collection:
‘EUROSHIMA MON AMOUR’ Hilltop Press (UK-Oct 2000)
