Poem 51

Break-up astrophysics … and persistence of vision as applied to absence … 

… reading all these poems back I see space (ie. the universe) is a recurring theme for me … along with cats, bees, the seasons, early evening, death, love in the specific and in the general …

Dark Matter

You've gone away from me
at however many million miles makes light
speed stars clanging through your curls
like railway lines your eyes two of these holes
we've heard so much about
but in reverse
                they've pushed you right away
or wrong away whichever
matter/doesn't matter way you look at it

you went so fast
I could still see you here
like some bizarre bedroom scene glimpsed halfway
down a fatal plunge
now a planet cuts me off
like a bus
           I push my fingers on my eyes
and colour you all sorts before your shadow breaks
its outline
and goes everywhere

… cold over this end
of the universe without the right
change
another coin for the sun