UNMISSABLE
Peg on washboard
De’ils bird
Taunts on chimney
Flash of electric
Blue against
Morning sky
Reflected in eye
Magpie steals
Breakfast with
Jewellers precision
Sea of Crises
No garden then that concrete year grey as Mare Crisum, sun dappled island of cement - stars my destination moon in the gutter. James Burke commentates As Eagle leaves the safety of a kitchen orbit. Three days circle the yard silver plastic glinting, module making unexpected course corrections near Mother of all asteroids. Sheets battening in solar wind, tracking the washing line, over a landing site secured. Countdown to burn, finger and thumb executing last minute correction as Armstrong flew dead stick with computer off. Hundred feet – closing fast like cheese. Craters and dust. Easy now Almost Brace And The Eagle Has Landed Tranquility Base here. Magnificent desolation. Roll back on warm concrete Admiring the achievement tiny plastic LEM on harsh lunar surface Prepare for EVA as a shadow falls - One Giant Step as the final shirt is pegged out like a conquering flag, crushing my dreams of
