The Brooklyn Rail

Super Big News

strophe

for some reason a couple times this year
the super moon appears the   evening
tv news hypes this as need   for filler
leading up to some real time advertisement—

the inflated     rounded out of flattened     moon
rises more blown up incorrect an image
than the news feed normally stuffs us with
Neil de Grasse is said to note that

the reason really is the rotation in
its elongated orbit nearest Earth
closeness makes the Moon come off larger

as for that coming up rising into the sky
it too is an illusion   we too are in rotation in
the going under what rolls over us.

antistrophe

that   up is down and left its own right and —
should surprise us but we knew it from it
not making sense that is our own lives no surprise
hand should we then

turn everything around upside going down
how you want it comfort and     and or speed
spill all the pieces off the back horizon back

door as a playing surface always open
to drop away open from under us
both play and surface into landing or not —

that abrupt random uncertainty set
into entropy           should print
the one hand on the other some agreement hand
clapping the horizon into thin air   off the wall.

epode

that imprimatur’d fingerprint on you
that lets you in to the party   concert
whatever’s playing you passed inspection to
at the sacred rope          your skirt

of whatever the rule      the right length —
no one knows what the rope is tied into
at that moment you show up in front
of the line up to him   the rope end of the line

he is          the decision of —
you only know the other side    once there
is on your side —   you cool       be so to know which save
you have been through to here to have to behave

to fit in
into—      your adapation to      as simple as that moon