How on earth does one settle back into ordinary life having once experienced the extraordinary?
ASTRONAUT
Round and round the earth in space
spins the eager astronaut
in a module like a pebble
far-flung from a vast slingshot.
Oceans, mountains, forests, cities,
spin beneath him like a child’s top.
He could hear the planet humming
if he ever cared to eavesdrop.
Spaceman, when your orbit’s ended,
gravity resumed again;
wings clipped, what can now fulfill you
when earthly life is so mundane?
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| Tim Peake's image of the Channel Islands from space. The larger lighted areas are parts of the English and French coasts |
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