Big Band Stars - John Vanderslice

We set out in tennis shoes

Ski jackets and driving gloves

We crossed lonely fields of snow

In early evening, the sky

Heather glowed

Glowed

In a frozen lunar marsh

We stumbled on WBBR

Substation radio tower

Broadcasting big band stars

Substation radio tower

Broadcasting big band stars

We climbed past call letter badge

Past the red pulsing warning lights

Aerial lights

Transmitter I barely attached

As it thundercracked like a breaking mast

Mast

Mast

I looked out over the town

I wish I had a whale to hunt down

I looked out over the sea

I wish someone was waiting to bury me

Turn on your tractor beam

Set your sights for heavenly seams

I’ve started to believe

On concrete we scattered our seeds

Seed

Seed

Seed

Seed