Variations on a theme

Sometimes I just have to shut the door,

lay down and close my eyes. 

Variations on the theme might include

Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part 1

with those Kubric-style interplanetary soundscapes,

imagined giant windows onto incredible scenes

of slow rotating worlds passed in extended trajectory

of impossible speed, coming-to with a book still in my hand,

it’s Wainwright’s handwritten notes and drawings: Hopegill,

Hobcarton Crag, Grange, Seatoller, Whinlatter, Stair,

and my head goes back, eyes closed again

and I know I can be here or anywhere anytime I choose.

Press Play, Bluetooth to the pretty Roberts radio

and dream everything away.