The moon dimmed opposite
the world from us,
dimmed in a shuttering
we both missed, its slide
a slow eyelid drowsing down
with the waning afternoon, with our
waning wakefulness, waning
attention drawn among too many screens,
our minds like sacking
split along seams and beans
scattering from tear to countertop.
Had I brush or broom,
patch and thread, another mind
and pair of eyes to home
onto the vanishing craters,
the mares muddying the shadow’s cusp,
I might divide my focus,
hold you and the moon
along with the burr and the grind.
Posts Tagged ‘science’
Eclipse, Remotely
Posted in Geek Poems, tagged relationships, science, space on April 29, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Magnet
Posted in Geek Poems, tagged science on November 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Lure, pull, faint like the first
tap of bream on bobbling bait
brushing by the bottom –
a breath, then a breathless, steady
haul to draw a wanded magnet,
plus a key, up from the car wash rubbish,
out from the domed-over bin,
thanks to all the attraction of additive
moments, the grasp of invisible field.
Bias
Posted in Geek Poems, tagged science on October 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I can’t shake the snakes
from my data. From
the bottom they boil,
roil among the points
I’ve plotted from X to Y.
My marks shake among
sinister sinews, drift like
the threads that – on a clear day
with an eye to a steel-bright sky – plague
my vision, pulse just ahead
of my focus, subtle shift and slide
down, down, unpinable,
refusing to be swept aside.
Rover
Posted in Geek Poems, tagged science, space on August 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
All the old ships,
in plank and pitch,
canvass rippling down
under play of drafts and vortices,
all the old ships wore their way
through barnacle and spray,
looking out from the nest
in the wait for dry land.
My watchers in their
grounded nests trail now
a quarter-hour behind
while the land I spy
rests, dry and bright,
the crane in flight no
harbinger of shore
or wetland. No tides
may draw me into harbor
while, a world away,
a long night breaks
under the wait for solid ground.
Longitude
Posted in Geek Poems, tagged relationships, science on March 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Miles’ measure is minor when matched
against meridians, whose membranes hew
the globe into grapefruit-bitter bites.
Longitude and light, exchange of dusk
for day, offset of sleep and morning:
I disbelieve how, divided by so many lines,
I might still matter. Far enough away and a pair
of magnets will forget each other,
and even gravity can be escaped
with momentum and a great enough expanse.
I’m off the map with the thought that an evening
of mine could find you only half as far away
as you’ll find yourself with the fall of your next night.
Against this grand immensity I need another
rule, a greater scale to square against the vast.
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