npm2020: poetry videos day 8 "Gazillipede"

My National Poetry Month Project 2020 is to record a short video each day in April, presenting my published poems to poetry lovers of all ages.

Today's poem imagines a very large, very creepy, very crawly creature.

Gazillipede

                                               

night is

        falling

                          the sun is

                          leaking its gold

                       green night-beetles are

              glinting

           glinting

something is

         creeping

                 something is

                           climbing

               stretching up  and

                   stretching up  and

                                stretching up  and

                                            down falls of cool water

                                                                through rivers of color
                                                                                    up to a gilded moon

something is

        creeping

                something is

                         climbing 

            on a million tiny

                     billion tiny

                           trillion tiny feet
                                               climbing the spine of the world