LISTENING TO THE “MOON MEN”
The message is varied our
s/salve soul solve
solution
boosters are clear
send / sent
a message or emissary a
line
an isle
rocks on the path
late
facing
meant or meet or
manufactured
for Cable & Wireless Ltd.
probably find some
more fucking fern
under (or) on
a rock
not evaluated
data deficient
“radio-controlled cameras
can film a tennis ball five miles way”
(or thereabouts)
comb the airwaves
track the Snark
among the
maidenhair
scrape scrape
– the missing moss
men can listen listlessly
to the moon
a defined culture medium
I hear them say it’s all hearsay
now the big missile’s on its way
which ‘can’ ‘almost’ ‘think’
since it was introduced
terra forma parsley fern
but whom’s fighting who?
it writes itself
don’t you know
Annogrammica ascensionis
– as I say
not all of these were present concurrently
each Island base is a mini Cape Canaveral
I’m fumbling around in obscurity?
healthy at the time of Hooker
but quite singularly
the climate is conducive
there’s a shadow on the commercial
the future’s not now
it’s ablated
Author’s Bio
Bob Brightt is a poet, yogi, baseball player and educator, based in Kent in the UK. He has an MA in TESOL and a PG Dip in Poetic Practice from RHUL. His work is concerned with finding the spiritual through aleatory connections.
