Alchemisland

Lunar eclipse last night

Abusive lips, rocky as a test flight

Hitting turbulence in the dead night

Radio back to base, mayday mayday

Affirmative crackle back, black tac vest like tackling gear stiffens my back

Trying to reach back into the backseat and grab the bag with the manual

Auto is out, only manual, man you are gonna be man you were

If you can’t turn these tides and spurn the Egyptian chariots

Cracks appear on the windscreen, I lean hiding my head beneath the panel

Wind hitting it like a gavel pronouncing a hundred in the slammer

But the glass holds, a sample of military excellence, slam the flightsticks 

Back fully but her nose barely raises, smoke from an unseen blaze

In the engine makes breathing hard, I pick a distant target

And pray won’t depart from this world I thought I outsmarted

Parted from control, I guide the flying machine through its barrel rolls

What look like roads, God bless those below

Wind and rain spray dismaying through a shattered casement

Remember your training, it’s hazy and I need something hasty

Pull a tasty manoeuvre to glide through a narrow gap

Safe passage through a storm-wracked valley, miles per gallon

Ultra wary, watching the dial reach its sinister crescendo

Descending now faster than ever, praying deliverance from bauld descendents

View of the city like the end of Eastenders

Going straight through avoidable impediments to sate my vanity

Full as a hoover after a natural disaster tears down your gaff 

Descent faster than a race to smash your flyer’s face into pavement

Paying a visit to the mole people, high than not falling steeple

The people point up at this party crashing comet streaking

Painting oil streaks across the sable sheets of wild night

The paddock keeping in the night mare, the daring brightness

Of this heightened interloper, a titan with all the subtlety of ball lightning

Frightening sight of its passing by, colliding, a spire of smoke rises

Pyre of man’s power, the bird we are not sundered this hour

The sun comes up from under, wonder of the summer