Visitors to far West Texas usually make a point to visit Big Bend, the McDonald Observatory and to try to catch a glimpse of the mysterious Marfa Lights. Those unexplained lights were the inspiration for this week’s poem from the Typewriter Rodeo.
Marfa Lights
you look in the distance
in the black of the night
expectations
high
your gaze
higher
and you wait
staring
wondering
are they real?
can it be true?
an electrical force?
otherworldly messages?
a portal to an alien world?
and then
blink!
blink!
the white orbs appear
glowing on the horizon
and maybe it’s a farmer with a flashlight
maybe it’s a lost hipster hunting
Donald Judd
or maybe
just maybe
it’s none of the above
Produced by Laura Rice.