​Méliès Moon, by Jacob Lee Bachinger

Still from Le Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon), film by Georges Méliès (France) 1902

​Méliès Moon
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I will refuse the cold and lifeless rock
and instead choose the Méliès moon,
a wild, anarchic planet, one eyeball
burst by a rocket’s priapic thrust.  
 
I will refuse a cold and distant science
and instead choose a lunar snowfall
sprinkled by star-girls with shining stockings
over forests of swollen mushrooms.  
 
I will refuse to be cold and logical
and instead choose spectacle, the dark side
of the moon governed by skeletal simians,
the dominion of dreams I am afraid to confess.
 
Jacob Lee Bachinger 
 
Jacob Lee Bachinger lives in southern Alberta where he teaches at University of Lethbridge.  His book of poetry, Earth-cool, and Dirty, was published by Radiant Press of Regina in 2021.  His work has been featured in Canadian journals such as The Fiddlehead, Riddle Fence, and The Malahat Review, among others. For more information: https://www.jacobleebachinger.com/

Le Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon), film by Georges Méliès (French) 1902