SPEED FOR A CENTURY

By D. R. Gayton

 

Accelerate—

we split a mammoth

Path—through wilderness

Coughing fire as we buzz

Through swamps

Through quagmires

In the dark

The sky burns

Sapphire blue

And

Trucks speed by

As the silence moans, the victory of

A great loss,

 

A farm house

cries across the pastures

Below a mountain

Strewn with pines

Like monks on

Rocks

Glides

A silver placard

To regulate the freedom of

Mankind

Crashing

Vibrations sustaining my

Spine,

As the pictures in

The window change

So fucken

Fast.

 

 

 

From Juvenilia (2016)