Mail to the Moon
I read your poems and one
reminded me of something
I had written
so I put it in the post.
Then reading on I saw the dates
and realised you were recently
dead and so my poem would
land in a hallway where
it would only remind
anyone there that you
had moved away for ever,
as if I’d mailed it
to the moon,
or the post box was
a order accutane no rx portal to infinite
emptiness, hovering inside its
red iron thorax, but that’s
poetry for you.
Chris Hardy’s poems have been published widely and have won prizes. His fourth collection will be published in 2017 by Indigo Dreams. Chris is in LiTTLe MACHiNe, performing their settings of poetry around the UK and elsewhere.