Thursday, April 04, 2024

Poem for Wednesday and Carkeek Crab Feasts

The Alien 
By Greg Delanty 

I'm back again scrutinizing the Milky Way
          of your ultrasound, scanning the dark                  
                    matter, the nothingness, that now the heads say
          is chockablock with quarks & squarks,
gravitons & gravitini, photons & photinos. Our sprout,
who art there inside the spacecraft
               of your Ma, the time capsule of this printout,
               hurling & whirling towards us, it's all daft
          on this earth. Our alien who art in the heavens,
our Martian, our little green man, we're anxious
to make contact, to ask divers questions
          about the heavendom you hail from, to discuss
                    the whole shebang of the beginning&end,
          the pre-big bang untime before you forget the why
and lie of thy first place. And, our friend,

to say Welcome, that we mean no harm, we'd die
          for you even, that we pray you're not here
                    to subdue us, that we'd put away
          our ray guns, missiles, attitude and share
our world with you, little big head, if only you stay.

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Quickie while watching the season finale of Resident Alien, in which hopefully Enver Gjokaj is going to save the world so he can come back and be sexy next season. It was a pretty typical nice Wednesday here, though much colder than Tuesday after overnight pouring rain: chatted with my high school friends in the morning, watched the end of Thor: Love and Thunder with Kristen in the afternoon and started The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. I had to rearrange my books and Tarot decks thanks to a few awesome new additions, including The Sherwood Oracle by Mark Ryan and The Infinite Possibilities Oracle by Taylor Blackwell, who autographed it for me and who hopefully will also be back on Resident Alien next season. We watched The Masked Singer, which was smart enough not to unmask the Clock (Thelma Houston?). Birds fish for crabs just like people do at Carkeek Park:

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