[51/365] some poetry today

[cosmolinguist]

I can't get the formatting right, but here's my favorite bit of this excellent poem I read today, At Age 28, Chilean Astronomer Maritza Soto Has Already Discovered Three Planets, by Vincent Toro

I like to suppose
that our gente were never erased

but rather beamed to a star system
that does not regard them as merely tool
or trinket, a galaxy where their dreams

are as important as those
who dwell in some imaginary
North.

And then because of that I read Mail-Order Planets by Adrian Matejka

Behind a mirrored visor, the singing inside
my American-flagged extravehicular mobility unit
so robust it could keep a black boy from Indiana breathing
in outer space.

Comments

[hafnia]

ah, I read the first one in my inbox today and immediately thought of you. I'm glad you found it! :)

[cosmolinguist]

Saw it on Mastodon. :)

[mrs_leroy_brown]

That was on my poem a day podcast! That's a great one because the poet often gives the context of the poem and did so in this one :)

[cosmolinguist]

Yeah it's at the bottom of this page, and I really loved that; it added a lot to the experience of reading it, for me.

[sfred]

<3

[swingandswirl]

Ooooh, that is gorgeous.

(I wish the -es gender neutral ending was more common, though, I can _never_ figure out how to pronounce the -x ending without it sounding off.)