Poem: 'The Pyramids Of Saturn'

THE PYRAMIDS OF SATURN: 

VOLTAIRE ON GRAVITY 

 AS A PHYSICAL TRUTH 

Ganymede nights are silk winged
like the kiss of blindness,
we wait for a sunrise
that never comes, mapping
braille topography with
slender steel fingers…

until the pinpoint stars
become crazy with illusion,
holes in the dome of sky in a
mildewed night that’s eternal
and there’s nothing else
but darkness

that’s when you
start hitting switches,
just to watch lights stab,
echoing white constellations
of cold fire across methane ice,
enchanting a soft rain of vacuum
irrupting and draining away
into foetal void

making these
accusing shadows
into the skeletal
pyramids of Saturn


Published in:
‘SPECULATIVE POETRY REVIEW no.2’ (USA - Feb 1978)
‘THE MENTOR no.33’ (September 1981 - Australia)
‘ABERRATIONS no.17’ (USA - April 1994)
and in collection:
‘EUROSHIMA MON AMOUR’ Hilltop Press (UK-Oct 2000)