It Belongs to the Brave: 1986

At T+73 time stood still -

For time is an artefact of velocity

On one vector - one focus - one shard.

This space has become legion; limbo -

A stratocumulus of metallic fire – perchlorate - alumina,

Roaring at the apsis of a contracting ring -

Betrothing an arm of vapour - balling to a fist.

A punch - wind resistance - Tearing air -

The timepiece - ripped from its mounts – numbers spinning -

The mechanism – disassembled - back to factory state,

Splits into tributaries - shipped unsealed.

Two screaming SRBs - two fingers -

Bifurcate from the conflagration -

Shear apart …

A crude victory sign,

Etched over the seaboard sky,

Collapses - the flight termination system,

Sanctifies the wreck.

About the author

Tani Law Rey is a young, idealistic, Generation Z, queer, transatlantic, travelling poet. A former student of Cantonese and Native Alaskan poetry, Tani has studied the arts of poetry from the Bering strait to the South China Sea. As an alumnus of the interdisciplinary Artikinesis Arts Collective, Tani’s poetry has been exhibited in venues ranging from arts festivals, to stand-up performance spaces, to reclaimed industrial lots. Readers of an adventurous inclination can find Tani haunting the bohemian open mics and performance arts spaces of Christiania, Denmark. At the time of writing, Tani’s debut prose novel is under production.