Wilderspool Causeway

The globe provided a live weather report
to boldly interrupt the thoughts
of an 8-year-old science lover
with news of constant Colorado storms
and scattered showers when you zoom into Sonning.

That contraption, with its right proportions,
torque and granular mountain relief
was the height of technology:
didn’t stop speaking.

It collapsed imagination
to hotel and seaside idylls projected on a screen
and snapshots of eternal sun
over low desert lodges.

This world gives us so much
but where is its charging cable
and can we explore the Free State without bluetooth?

The original world was more of a sketch;
great continents fused then left.
It was the work of an impressionist,
with an extra light that held deep space
projected into dots and shapes while you’re dreaming.

That model gave us space, and, as you said,
this other world is still plugged in;
this other world is lit up from within.