Others
Will they appear silently
on our horizon’s doorstep
heralding their sudden arrival
with flashes of Alessi chrome
or send word in advance
from across gulfs of time
a message to fold out the sofa
for envoys not yet
born at the time of transmission?
Perhaps they’ll simply pass us by
indifferent in sleek behemoths
on the way to a place less
parochial than here. Of what
real interest is a floating
termite-mound to possibly
non-corporeal entities? Human
awe has always aimed skyward.
Unfocussed waves
radiate from organic transmitters
waiting for a wave back.
- Benjamin Dodds 2012
homeostasis
slowly, slowly lentamente
the density of water lessens
and that of air increases
nobody notices this but me
only genius machines
with glacial ticking patience
can detect the change
from thick to thin and vice versa
nobody sets them to check
on the day of equilibrium
our larger lungs
grown in measured secrecy
in the earth of our chests
will share the briny air
with futurefish
as tidewinds bear up
kites with hook-strung tails
reeled out by
ever-enterprising boys
- Benjamin Dodds 2012
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