Cosmic Disco
Cosmic Disco
Rocking-with-wind-trees
waltzing-with-moon-ocean –
Everything in purposeful motion
like the lifting lark
or the swirls of Saturn
Even the far-away stars
explode
on the dance-floor of infinity –
grouping and regrouping
into new constellations.
O see them
under the shifting disco
of the inter-galactic lights –
The gravitational boys
in their shimmering shirts.
The orbiting girls
in their luminous glad-rags –
within magnetic reach of their rotating handbags.
Copyright: from Cosmic Disco (Frances Lincoln Books, 2013), © Grace Nichols 2013, used by permission of the author