One Crowded Hour in the Glorious Life of an Astronaut (TEXT)
One Crowded Hour in the Glorious Life of an Astronaut

It was late September
very near the equinox
Auras reflecting radiance of scatter
dance
Impact atoms energise electrons
fanned by solar wind
Cloud chambers of innocence
bust in clanging space
between sistering planets
The love that ignites stars
ushers heat
bursting headlong stitching-down earth
as the mind’s skittish plough remembers …

Exploding out of nothing into everything
Thoughts leaping eagerly to fill
the emptying space
in no time at all
Imaginings stretch to keep-up
everything spread so thin
with only an umbilical of memory
tethering spirit to the smooth marble
As a peep-back at the bright ball
floating in the midnight blue
disappears.

By chance
the passing planet
proves too dull a blade
to peel-back atmosphere

Screaming at the ether
feeds a universe
And a world ends
when it’s metaphor dies