Fresh verse on offer, for pleasure, inspired by a mathematician within a fraction of seconds. This ties very neatly with Geopoetics on a more universal scale. And later thought of Edwin Morgan, the great poet from Glasgow.
It is titled: Out of Our Space
Tell me again,
how far from our star to
the Earth?
So many zeros between
us,
should we ignore
sleek speed of
light…
93 million miles away,
or a mere 9.3×10 to the power of 7 –
or eight
minutes, if
we manage to
harness
light
to
catch a
glimpse of each sunrise.
How
many stars,
rotating moons, elliptical rides, rings, or
rocks
in
between
us and the unknown?
Reset the clock in standard form and
start
punching
the right button.
Lerwick, 7 June 2016
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