Event horizon
Snowstorm
Tunnelling into the night, as in a dream of falling,
towards the illusion of a vanishing pointa
paradox, the white lines always parallelthe
road sucks at us hungrily,
a black hole's slippery corridor.
Snow comes, like interference; we're inside a box,
metal-clad, crossing our known borders,
still warm with conspiracy. Our chatter
has no exchange rate with the blizzard,
the silence of deep space, its roar.
Time, distance, gravity have rigged their equations.
Points of light shower and break over us
like starfields hurtling past
or the ice-fire of a comet tail,
gorgeous and violent.
And ahead some car loses its nerve; brakes, pirouettes,
glides backwards, a behemoth from black deeps,
into our desperate headlights, then out,
towards the end or origin of matter
and space-time's infinite curvature.
Snowglobe
Morning tips us, blinking, from its pink lip
into a parallel universe, the heart of a pearl.
The air rings, glass-domed, penetrating as x-rays,
the brown winter breath of verge and hedgerow,
tilled field and leafmould, held in.
Like mole, rat and badger, pilgrims, bag-ladies,
a dingy straggle pocks the snowscape,
trudging towards the gate and the razor wire.
The concrete posts are the finger bones of giants,
frozen playing cat's cradle.
The policewomen stand red-knuckled, hating us.
We make snow-angels and music;
a violin hangs ribbons of colour
on the stave of the fence. We wait for the convoy.
We wait for God to shake us.
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