A martian arrives home

Will.i.am’s new single premiering on Mars

Los Angeles Times, 28 August 2012

Arrived home safely whistling something

classical learned while on earth. I’d found

it hard to sleep, so it helped me speed

the time wasted lying awake in stasis.

New neighbours arrived. Must pop round,

soon as this places is tidied—it’s tail-deep

in postcards from Amis, Reid and Raine—

ask them to turn the bloody volume down.

(c) 2012 Slush Poet

Silverlight (No 2 of ¡Las Canciones Bravas!)

Mars rover Curiosity safely lands on the red planet

Independent, 6 August 2012

I surface to splashing and children's
shouting - the world washed out
in silverlight, dry-mouthed -
the sounds of waterplay,

like the morning after the night
a man on the moon really became
the man on the moon, and I came to
to the echo of my name.

(c) Slush Poet