Poetry: Mark Young

Mark Young

Discoded

 

The cyber

netics

of night

 

in

     that

stars

 

advance

mechanic

     ally

 

     & I

can feel

them

 

     through

my

     skin.


According to Descartes

 

It might be tarted up

by the French as being

 

une belle epoque, but

essentially the state of

 

natural philosophy in

the middle ages can best

 

be described as a few

horny gentlemen in a hot

 

tub trying to make it with

a girl in a red bikini. 

 


 

A Night at the Opera

 

Place the main stress

on vocal display. For all

practical purposes

light travels in

 

straight lines, too fine

to be detected under

a microscope. Is

therefore secondary,

 

a mineral deposit

stretching out beyond

Pluto, or a spherical

cloud of comets

 

sometimes foregone

in order to achieve

an objective. Dancing

may also play a part.


 

Movement

 

of the

hands

 

or

 

the use of

distracting

scenery –

 

that's

what

draws the eye

away 

 

a simple

trick

 

prestigitation

 

though

some

call it

magic

 




 

Stem cells

 

I am sweeping yellow

flowers off the back

path. A plane comes up

out of the out-of-sight

airport & sweeps off to

the left. Port or star-

board? I have never

been sure which is

which. I am sweeping

 

yellow flowers off the

back path. A poem

comes up out of the

out-of-sight & gets

swept into the there-

for-getting-back-to

box when I get back

upstairs. Port or star-

board — doesn’t matter.


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