A Fender Stratocaster
rides like a space ship
follow those sounds
around the room
up up up past the ceiling
over the roof
way past tree lines
above ragged craggy peaks
beats blues bolero buzz
crying to the moon
everything reverberates
as we rise like astronauts
soaring past everyone
Les Paul Hendrix Clapton
as we fly high higher
wah wah wah wah
chords climb croon caress
slide sweep sing sigh
slow slip soar
rumble race rave
we follow the stars
as they glow silver gold
platinum plutonium
pandemonium
we jump through nebulas
stratospheres
galaxies bend shapeshift
everything we ever knew
lies behind us
as we watch light bend
wah wah wah wah
Mary K O'Melveny is a recently retired labor rights attorney who lives in Washington DC and Woodstock NY. Her work has appeared in various print and on-line journals. Her most recent poetry collection is Dispatches From the Memory Care Museum, just out from Kelsay Books. Her first poetry chapbook A Woman of a Certain Age is available from Finishing Line Press. Mary’s poetry collection Merging Star Hypotheses was published by Finishing Line Press in January, 2020.