You might have thought its batteries were flat,
but the drone of disillusion flies
at dusk
at dawn
at noon.
It would have you believe your life is a shred
of scattered margins around a collapsed centre
under an egg-shaped sun, and that reality
is an unreachable cobweb in the past;
don’t believe what that scam artist says.
Fill your worldscreen instead with wonders,
the greatest unfiltered astonishments:
the scorpion glowing blue under black light,
the platypus’ electrolocation,
the chrysalis of everything marvellous.
S.C. Flynn was born in a small town in Australia of Irish origin and now lives in Dublin. His poetry has been published in more than a hundred magazines in more than ten countries. His forthcoming collections are “The Colour of Extinction” (Renard Press, October 2024) and “An Ocean Called Hope” (Downingfield Press, May 2025).
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