I play chicken with Jupiter I might end up suspended in the teeth of a howling gale anchored legs straight arms stretched leaning into cosmic wind dodging lightning flashes among ammonia clouds my hands clamped over my ears at each rumble of thunder we might even play hoopla with Jupiter’s gossamer ring Kim M. Russell, […]
Tag: Space
Invisible
We are invisible, held together by dark matter. We speckle emptiness, galaxies strung like diamonds on taffy pulled by space and time in an expanding universe, sculpted and dented by gravity into a map of invisibility. Kim M. Russell, 2017 Image found on Pinterest My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads – Invisible Today […]
Weight
In the vacuum of space, no clocks tick, there’s no watch to check if you are late, no hands to blur the flow of time. Comets crash, stars burn, all the while planets turn and scientists no longer wind: they measure with quiet quantum mechanics, atomic clocks and relativity, warping time with precision while we […]
Gemstone Winds
Beyond the Solar System, in the Cygnus constellation, a hot Jupiter orbits, enormous, gaseous planet of intense light and heat locked face to face with its parent star in space. Colossal clouds of corundum, a ruby and sapphire conundrum of unimaginable tone, are blasted by fickle, violent winds, hot as hell and cool as diamonds. […]
The Silence of Space
a dense fog of stars, planets, gas and dust fizzes silently in space Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on Just Space space | Tumblr My tenth haiku for the Carpe Diem First Winter Retreat 2016 the kick off – find the silence
Breathing Space
minds need oxygen space in which to breathe circles around a living tree with green lungs for green minds breathing space in which to grow circulating, flowing and growing inspiring spiral steps from level to level increase aspiration to become trees with green minds breathing space in which to grow circulating and growing breathing space © Kim […]
The Ballad of the Space Diamond
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Tale Weaver #66: All that Glitters She had the hardness and glitter Of a diamond But her heart had the softness Of a pearl; Under make-up, jewels and furs She was still a little girl, Not a tigress who growls and then purrs. He had money and a rampant reputation […]
Still on the subject of space
Unhook the Moon Unhook the moon Let her drift away Like a white balloon A runaway bride On her wedding day Grant her freedom From Earth A tyrannical husband Himself once abused Now abusing her
A momentary passion for space
Looking Up On a night that is cloudless I stand in the garden Look up into darkness Into space Wonder how cheesy is the moon How creamy the Milky Way Silently wish upon a falling star Not thinking how far Away we are From someone up there Looking down A human on a space station […]
We saw these cherubs in an ornamental pond in Florence
Cherubs in a Pond Orbiting in space Gemini lit in marble Two moons face to face
