MARS ASCENDING
I. Il. (For Jet Morgan and Sandro Botticelli) A CONTINENTAL cloud of yellow dust Storms over Lacus Solis; dull and hoar Are the lichenous prairies; polar frost Dissolves into unseasonable thaw. Out there, down here, something is amiss: Flood takes a town, grenades kill a child, What has been will be, what might be is, The nations rage and the desert runs wild. Somehow our future, age or violence, Measured by clocks or strata, mirrors there For stargazers to see with instruments The white-patched poles, the dust, the thinning air. Mars ascends in golden armour Venus in shell of dark lies sleeping Children gaze at nightsky window. Children in their beds lie sleeping Mars unbars the shining window Venus unpins the golden armour, Venus clouds the curtained window Mars now in her lap lies sleeping
Children steal the golden armour.
M. K.
Joseph
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 899, 26 October 1956, Page 20
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145MARS ASCENDING New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 899, 26 October 1956, Page 20
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