A tomato Red Dwarf
spills the seeds to build life
across a spinning plate. Baked beans
are cosmic debris scattered near
the over-easy Sun around which
everything orbits. Mushrooms act
as satellites that transmit back
greasy data – pooled on hard discs
at the space station of bacon –
they dock with comets of sausage.
A caffeinated moon captures
the milky-way of Strip-lights, stirred
as extra-terrestrial toast
arrives to wipe everything out.
© Mat Riches
Picture 10159997, 1950s photograph, image copyright Mary Evans
Mat Riches is ITV’s poet-in-residence (they don’t know this). His work has appeared in a number of journals and magazines, most recently New Statesman, Wild Court, The High Window and Finished Creatures. He co-runs the Rogue Strands poetry evenings, and reviews for HappenStance, The High Window, London Grip and The Friday poem. He has a pamphlet due out from Red Squirrel Press in 2023. He is on Twitter as @matriches and blogs at Wear The Fox Hat.
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