Marc Carver
Out There
Outside the heaviest rain I have ever seen
thumps the earth.
I count the distance between the thunder and the lightning
I get an urge to go out in it
I hold back, put the football on, then turn the cable off
so that all that is left is the carrier signal that looks like tiny creatures moving about.
They look a bit like each other, the rain in the window and the signal they say is the only thing out there in space
but I don't believe them.
Marc Carver: Just sometimes I get it right and it makes all the waking up in the middle of the night with some obscure poem going around my head worthwhile. I hope people enjoy my work.
Out There
Outside the heaviest rain I have ever seen
thumps the earth.
I count the distance between the thunder and the lightning
I get an urge to go out in it
I hold back, put the football on, then turn the cable off
so that all that is left is the carrier signal that looks like tiny creatures moving about.
They look a bit like each other, the rain in the window and the signal they say is the only thing out there in space
but I don't believe them.
Marc Carver: Just sometimes I get it right and it makes all the waking up in the middle of the night with some obscure poem going around my head worthwhile. I hope people enjoy my work.