Look how firmly it sits
on whatever glass table spans the horizon.
A continent of billowing sunlight
shifting walls of explosion
mountains stacked upon mountains.
It is the most definitive thing.
It is loaded with the thrill of its own weight.
How did such boldness arrive unannounced?
Where does it hide the slow churn of its gears?
I want to rap my knuckles against its secrets
step through its corridors
feel the pulse of its engines.
Massive harvester of the air. It gathers up silence like a bomb.
First published in takahē 2016