–artist Greg Mort

 

Imagination’s always more delicious

than that sixteen-inch black-and-white

portion you watched in ’69. Here

the tall pines are yours—fresh

from the backwoods of childhood—

the pock-marked, telescoped-up-close

sky—no, more like magnificent,

pungent Swiss swelling the horizon

beneath an alien’s secret microscope—

the green/blue of moon-mold tempting

your conspiratorial mind with all things lunar/

lunatic, fingers ready to launch escape

to what has already landed inches away from

now, here before your ravenous eyes, still

conjuring one more flight of fancy.

 

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Return to the Moon, Greg Mort (Contemporary). www.GregMort.com