Today’s New Verse News: TOURING THE GALAXIES WITH JEFF BECK
by Mary K O’Melveny
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A Fender Stratocaster rides like a space ship follow those sounds around the room up up up past the ceiling over the roof way past tree lines above ragged craggy peaks beats blues bolero buzz crying to the moon everything reverberates as we rise like astronauts soaring past everyone Les Paul Hendrix Clapton as we fly high higher wah wah wah wah chords climb croon caress slide sweep sing sigh slow slip soar rumble race rave we follow the stars as they glow silver gold platinum plutonium pandemonium we jump through nebulas stratospheres galaxies bend shapeshift everything we ever knew lies behind us as we watch light bend wah wah wah wah
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Mary K O'Melveny is a recently retired labor rights attorney who lives in Washington DC and Woodstock NY. Her work has appeared in various print and on-line journals. Her most recent poetry collection is Dispatches From the Memory Care Museum, just out from Kelsay Books. Her first poetry chapbook A Woman of a Certain Age is available from Finishing Line Press. Mary’s poetry collection Merging Star Hypotheses was published by Finishing Line Press in January, 2020.