kinky towers
Moon Poem #156
Look at her up in the sky, sitting
there, naturally, in her moon chamber,
orbiting, typing away at her cosmic typewriter.
Watch as her fingers dance
across the keys as if she were a pianist
playing a moonlit sonata. As she pauses
to think, she draws in a breath, pulling
from a pipe branching from her
lips, the bowl packed to the brim
with kismet, with hot coals
of stardust glowing red
like young stars.
She lets smoke escape her lips,
a shroud of clouds dances
around her like the rings of Saturn.
Thwack thwack go the keys. Ding goes the bell
as the carriage runs out at the end
of each tide. She logs all the events
of history, as usual, all the stories
of time. She has both witnessed all of it
and been a part of it all. She writes
in her cosmic journal: tales
of evolution, excitement, genocide,
sorrow; she has seen the most terrible
things and the most beautiful
things. Is there any difference? she asks
herself as she pulls back
the carriage and lets the tide flow
out. Her mind empties
and begins to fill up again- pooling
and swirling in the great cosmic bird bath-
her fingers type the tide
in, smooching the sand just a little
more every minute. The blood red
clouds begin to drip, the mountains echo
with howls. A lonely fool, bumbles along
innocently, stumbles across the stones
at the base of a tower. A very high
priestess performs magical rituals
at the top of the very same tower.