Amazing | Matt Mason
Sometimes
I feel the motion of the planet
like riding a train when
the wheels hit a shake in the tracks.
Sometimes
it’s a tremor, find myself,
feet tight against the floor,
leaned just a hair or two forward
into the momentum, and
sometimes
the journey has a hum, the endless road
of orbit and tidal pull
hits a chip, a swell, a crack, my legs
take a sec to steady,
sometimes,
this motion:
dizzying, blazing,
cosmic, amazing.
About the Author:
Matt Mason has run poetry workshops in Botswana, Romania, Nepal, and Belarus for the U.S. State Department and his poetry has appeared in The New York Times. Matt is the Nebraska State Poet and has received a Pushcart Prize as well as fellowships from the Academy of American Poets and the Nebraska Arts Council. His work can be found on NPR’s Morning Edition, in American Life in Poetry, and in several hundred other publications. Mason’s 5th book, Rock Stars, was released by Button Poetry, September, 2023. His website is: https://midverse.com.