This was the sky at Philadelphia on July 4, 1776, Continue reading “Independence Day street poem”
Tag: poetry
Vesta, vests, and the fallibility of poets
Everyone’s favorite asteroid, Vesta, is taking its apparent retrograde path, across the hind leg of Leo the lion, as we pass nearest to it.
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Star clusters and cultural treasures
Here is tomorrow’s sky, four hours after sunset yet still comfortably early in the long winter evening. Continue reading “Star clusters and cultural treasures”
Regard the Sun
Was it fair to call the three words I recited at yesterday’s Armistice commemoration – the names of my three dead uncles – a poem? Continue reading “Regard the Sun”