Dan Dare
I wonder whether apps will still exist
a hundred years from now. Paper will,
I think, and you who I imagine reading this
in an earth closet or cathedral
or by torchlight as I read about Dan Dare.
He was the future once, his spacecraft made
from balsa and elastic bands, his jaw
pointing ahead as if it knew the way.
Duncan Chambers lives in York. He has been writing poetry since the 1980s and has been published in various magazines including The Interpreter’s House, Magma and The North. He was awarded the Poetry Society’s Hamish Canham prize in 2018.