Spacepoem 3: Off Course

the golden flood     the weightless seat   
the cabin song     the pitch black
the growing beard     the floating crumb
the shining rendezvous     the orbit wisecrack
the hot spacesuit the    smuggled mouth-organ
    the imaginary somersault     the visionary sunrise
    the turning continents     the space debris
    the golden lifeline    the space walk
    the crawling deltas     the camera moon
    the pitch velvet     the rough sleep
    the crackling headphone    the space silence
    the turning earth    the lifeline continents
    the cabin sunrise    the hot flood
    the shining spacesuit    the growing moon
       the crackling somersault    the smuggled orbit
       the rough moon the    visionary rendezvous
       the weightless headphone    the cabin debris
       the floating lifeline    the pitch sleep
       the crawling camera    the turning silence
       the space crumb    the crackling beard
       the orbit mouth-organ    the floating song

(c) Edwin Morgan. Poems appear with kind permission of Carcanet Press and Mariscat Press. Images by kind permission of EdwinMorgan.com. With thanks to Edwin and the Scottish Poetry Library.