Event Horizon by Bruce McRae
That fated evening,
Comedy and Tragedy
thumb-wrestling for quarters,
Zeus changing
his name to Jupiter,
mothers ragging their offspring,
drunks stumbling
blind from the weight of intuition.
Pleasure's stadiums went dark,
the mayor folded in prayer,
cops letting off rounds,
the last radio in the land
blaring with rituals and tradition.
That terrible hour
the taverns emptied and churches
flung open their doors.
When Mother Annuncia
removed the novice's tethers
and local gurus declared
to hell with it.
Where were you, they'll ask,
when the sun went out?
In the deep-dark caverns.
In their cryo-sleep.
In spacebound astro-ships
they'll ask where were you
when gravity stopped its tugging
and the devil gave up
and the world wound down
and the cosmos fell into disorder?
The night the light was disengaged
from Earth's colossal turning.
Comedy and Tragedy
thumb-wrestling for quarters,
Zeus changing
his name to Jupiter,
mothers ragging their offspring,
drunks stumbling
blind from the weight of intuition.
Pleasure's stadiums went dark,
the mayor folded in prayer,
cops letting off rounds,
the last radio in the land
blaring with rituals and tradition.
That terrible hour
the taverns emptied and churches
flung open their doors.
When Mother Annuncia
removed the novice's tethers
and local gurus declared
to hell with it.
Where were you, they'll ask,
when the sun went out?
In the deep-dark caverns.
In their cryo-sleep.
In spacebound astro-ships
they'll ask where were you
when gravity stopped its tugging
and the devil gave up
and the world wound down
and the cosmos fell into disorder?
The night the light was disengaged
from Earth's colossal turning.
Bruce McRae, a Canadian musician, is a multiple Pushcart nominee with poems published in hundreds
of magazines such as Poetry, Rattle and the North American Review. His books include ‘The So-Called
Sonnets (Silenced Press); ‘An Unbecoming Fit Of Frenzy; (Cawing Crow Press) and ‘Like As If”
(Pski’s Porch), Hearsay (The Poet’s Haven).
of magazines such as Poetry, Rattle and the North American Review. His books include ‘The So-Called
Sonnets (Silenced Press); ‘An Unbecoming Fit Of Frenzy; (Cawing Crow Press) and ‘Like As If”
(Pski’s Porch), Hearsay (The Poet’s Haven).
