The Poem of the Month for March, selected by Anthology editors, Veronica Cookson and Lindy Warrell, is Whassup Mozart? by Gordon McPherson. The Commended Poem is I am not your lover by Alison Clifton.
Whassup Mozart? by Gordon McPherson
How I wonder
you holy grailers,
galactic sailors,
and serenaders
of space time,
blinking and hoodwinking,
through the cosmos,
the universal BIOS,
How I wonder
you disco glitzes
when you power up
your Ritzes
and your ditzy minuets
and jet those rays
around and down
and blitz
the frowning ground,
starfound,
with your rainbow outfits,
How I wonder
you tinsels,
when you sprinkle
your ticker tape parade
on the stellar freeways,
those ballets
and screenplays
of technicolour highs
and ballroomeyes,
when your cries
sing like millions
of magic flute sighs
in the quicksilver hordes
aboard the night sky,
How I wonder
you Cosi Fan sparklers,
in the rococo thunder
of your torn asunder
starbrights,
kinking the gravity fields
and sinking your far heights
in the light’s plunder,
How I wonder
you Big Bang strays,
you supernova front pages,
you red shift tearaways,
and how I ponder
you Mozart DJ’s,
what you wanderers
what you twinklers
really,
really are.
I am not your lover by Alison Clifton
kiss me again
like you did back then
and we’ll pretend
I am not your lover
yet
before the sinuous became insinuated
before the intimate became intimated
before we each felt intimidated
by the other
forget
two worn bodies lying supine
lovelorn and torn written down your spine
searching sky writing for a sign
from the earthmother
laid bets
there we lay in unmade bed
you an unmaid wed
me led astray and bled
both overwrought but undercover
regret
ignore me again
like you did back then
and we’ll pretend
I am not your lover
we never met