https://soundcloud.com/kramawoodgin/goggled-earth-myth
The naked man on stage, lit cool
blue by light emitting diodes &
the multiple eyes
of an audience on the edge
of their worlds. The man
who can recall all
satellite shots
of Earth
from an altitude
of a few
hundred feet.
Every last
acre & hectare of Earth’s
surface remembered
in a man’s brain. An obsession,
or reverence?
or form
of love?
Adam Atlast is suddenly
backdropped
by a projected
section of the crust
of a world.
The audience put on their goggles.
And with just one
glance he names
the place, the location,
the whereabouts, the solidity,
that the flat
digitally lit
veil emulates.
The world-edge audience gasps
at Adam’s global mind
as he utters names
of streets in cities or pin
-points boulders on glaciers or trees
in rain-forests.
His correct
answer verified through
latitude & longitude &
a long zoom
-out as if
the watcher is being
blasted backwards a
way into space.
This is his last show,
though. For finally
he can’t compete
with the changing of places,
the wearing-away of
whereabouts & delocalisations
of localities,
the melting the cutting
the digging the building. He can
no longer remember. No
sooner than he’s sussed
a bit
of urban/wilderness
and its changed
too much.
This is Adam Atlast’s last show.
Now here
is the slow
explosion
of a mind.
For he has detonated
the bomb Everyman gaffer-taped
to the back of his skull.
Along with the splash
of brains & rain
of bone billions
of images of grass & ice &
tarmac & even
ripples over reefs blast
from his presence gracefully
into the goggled faces
of an audience paralysed
on the edges
of their seats
.
.
Mark Goodwin
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my books
Steps
http://markgoodwinsteps.wordpress.com/
Else . Back of A Vast . Layers of Un .
http://www.shearsman.com/browse-poetry-books-by-author-Mark-Goodwin
Distance a Sudden
http://longbarrowpress.com/current-publications/mark-goodwin/
Shod
http://fiveleavespublications.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/there-is-no-doubt-that-that-shod-by.html
Clause in A Noise
http://www.knivesforksandspoonspress.co.uk/clauseinanoise.html
my digitally produced sound-&-poetry
http://soundcloud.com/kramawoodgin
my writer’s profile with Writing East Midlands
http://www.writingeastmidlands.co.uk/writers-directory/mark-goodwin/