Hi Fliss,
I’m pleased you like “The Black Widow Nebula.” That’s one of my favorites, too. Speaking of publication, I feel fortunate that a pretty good amount of my work has found homes, though I don’t spend a great deal of time sending poems out. You seem to be extremely prolific. I admire that.
Added in: I want to add that I am extremely grateful for Eratosphere, which is an excellent place to develop one’s skill, grace, and confidence in the art of poetry.
Regarding the Winchcombe meteorite, I didn’t know about it, but just read it in Wikipedia. They mentioned that the fragment that landed in a driveway is now in the London Natural History Museum. It’s a remarkable coincidence that you know the family in whose driveway it fell! It is, indeed, a small world. It was the first meteorite found in Britain in thirty years (the last one was found in 1991) and the first carbonaceous one ever picked up in Britain. The Winchcombe fragment weighed 11 ounces. Other fragments were found in a nearby sheep field.
You may know that in a ghazal, the last couplet traditionally alludes in some way to the poet’s name. So the magpie pecking the world seemed like a fitting conclusion. I’ll bet the tailless magpie in your garden with grow its tail back. Maybe it was torn off by some predator or the poor bird had an accident of some kind. But hopefully it’s just the feathers that are missing and not something more vital. Apparently it flies (am I right?). So it’s probably not a serious injury.
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You seem to have written quite a lot of space poetry. Do you think you might submit your collection for publication?
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Celestial Euphony (my book) does include a few space poems. But I like your idea of having a whole book devoted to them. Maybe that could be a chapbook. Something to definitely think about. Thanks for suggesting it!
Best,
Martin
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