Maybe they should have told me that
My tabs from yesterday include two poetry sites and a nice site on the structure of the earth:
http://www.moorlandschool.co.uk/earth/earths_structure.htm
If they had told me THEN that I would find myself reaching for natural science, physics, and chemistry as poetry analogies, I might have paid more attention. Because nothing is as embarrassing as writing a poem about celestial mechanics to an astronomy nerd, and getting the facts wrong. So I spend a non-zero amount of time in research so I can write things like this:
Shepherd Moon
Constrained in the orbital arms of mass,
I swing ponderously, rolling down a track
of gravity. Housekeeping comes naturally
to me, tidying up the traffic pattern,
accreting bits and pieces, keeping order.
A ring here, and a ring there,
and a broad clear path of vacuum.
----
O Shepherd Moon, doomed
to become the dust and rocks,
then drift into the well of weight:
how shall we value your pristine edges,
and the unthought space between the rings?
For the record, the other tabs I have open lately:
gmail
lj/twitter (they have to share, so I get something done)
flickr
Shipwreck Shawl
google calendar
Thinking Too Much
Techknitting
http://www.moorlandschool.co.uk/earth/earths_structure.htm
If they had told me THEN that I would find myself reaching for natural science, physics, and chemistry as poetry analogies, I might have paid more attention. Because nothing is as embarrassing as writing a poem about celestial mechanics to an astronomy nerd, and getting the facts wrong. So I spend a non-zero amount of time in research so I can write things like this:
Shepherd Moon
Constrained in the orbital arms of mass,
I swing ponderously, rolling down a track
of gravity. Housekeeping comes naturally
to me, tidying up the traffic pattern,
accreting bits and pieces, keeping order.
A ring here, and a ring there,
and a broad clear path of vacuum.
----
O Shepherd Moon, doomed
to become the dust and rocks,
then drift into the well of weight:
how shall we value your pristine edges,
and the unthought space between the rings?
For the record, the other tabs I have open lately:
gmail
lj/twitter (they have to share, so I get something done)
flickr
Shipwreck Shawl
google calendar
Thinking Too Much
Techknitting