NASA'S DISCOVERY - POETRY

With thanks to Merlin 2525 via Open Clip Art

I can’t thank NASA scientists enough. The lengths they have gone to, to make one of my poems highly topical! It happens like that. Just when you think that poem’s gone a bit quiet now … something happens out of the blue to bring it back into the limelight. So don't give up on anything.

The big news of course is confirmation that there is liquid water flowing on Mars. I suspect NASA has been working on this for a wee while. 

 

You can read the New York Times story here.

You can read my Mars poem below:

HERE WE COME

Our whole lives are broken down journeys

vehicles that spit and fizz with too many mendings

too much age

Wheels worn into the constant blue-black of bitumen

the endless signature inked into suburban arteries

and now across deserts

the red skirt dissected

the stiletto heel stab of rain rare indeed

Only in our heads

despondent as birds standing watch over dead loves

knocked down by speed

pasted to the wake left by two worlds colliding

How concise is colonization

country to country and now planet to planet

Look out Mars here we come

ready or not

© Lizz Murphy

— From Stop Your Cryin (Island Press 2004 RRP $10)

Available from the author