Thrilled to have my poem selected by the Science Museum.
“For a fourth year, the Science Museum Group has brought together science and poetry in celebration of National Poetry Day! It was no small feat for the judges to select just seven poems from the more than 200 submitted for this year’s competition. Each judge had a list of many other wonderful entries they loved but couldn’t quite find their way to the final selection.”
Astronaut Wanted
Tethered in traffic, eyes on home,
her world turned on those words
snapping a crack into her universe,
opening a step up to a new view.
Her answer slingshots her to Russia,
new languages and new science,
then out, escape velocity, into space
exploding into into a weightless peace.
She returns luminescent, charged
with the splitting heat of re-entry,
earthed, she is always out of sync,
too many sunrises lit her eyes.
Only the suit shares her timeline,
she would slip it on again and fly.