The Inauguration Polka I refuse …………….What does it matter if it’s been …………….twenty or twenty-one weeks to mourn… Read more My inauguration poem
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My New Year’s Eve poem
Exit Stage Left Tapping a pen out of ink on a desk improvised with a plank spanning an… Read more My New Year’s Eve poem
50 Years ago: The End of Gemini
Gemini 12 Nov. 11-15, 1966 Walking out to Pad 19, to the waiting Titan II, our Gemini… Read more 50 Years ago: The End of Gemini
Gemini 11: Asleep in space
Fifty years ago… We’re flying over Houston, standing in the open hatch, floating above our seat two days after launch. … Read more Gemini 11: Asleep in space
Back in the poesis again
The relationship between f-stop and depth of field All this anger swirling up from the planet, an… Read more Back in the poesis again
50 years ago: Gemini 10
Gemini 10, John Young and Mike Collins, a standard three-day Gemini mission. Of course none of them are standard… Read more 50 years ago: Gemini 10
50 years ago: The fog of spaceflight
Gemini 9 Exhausting. From the start. And now this. So much to do on short 72-hour Gemini missions. On… Read more 50 years ago: The fog of spaceflight
50 years ago today: Into the drink
Gemini 9 We’re button in our Gemini capsule, aiming 11:41 EDT launch. Two countdowns are underway at once. Over… Read more 50 years ago today: Into the drink
From the cloud
The Moon as … map of the Earth The moon as iris in a milky… Read more From the cloud
Springing back into verse
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted poetry. So here are three to swing into Spring. …Even if none of… Read more Springing back into verse
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