Lovely poem, covering so much in its three brief offhand stanzas, beautifully speculating about the universe and our own inadequate version. I was devastated by the insertion about the child swallowing the pills, and longed for a world where Dodos walk and there are sufficient eels for puffins to eat, and oceans are not heating up. For me it could have ended and still been brilliant after the second brilliant stanza. The final nine verses seem like another, equally good poem, which maybe needs to be set free to live a life of its own?
William Shatner had an unexpected emotion when he went in space. How our idealist minds act or wish to act on realities we don’t fully understand. Hence we do the most insane and wonderful things
I really like this poem. It suggests a lot more questions than it answers.
Lovely poem, covering so much in its three brief offhand stanzas, beautifully speculating about the universe and our own inadequate version. I was devastated by the insertion about the child swallowing the pills, and longed for a world where Dodos walk and there are sufficient eels for puffins to eat, and oceans are not heating up. For me it could have ended and still been brilliant after the second brilliant stanza. The final nine verses seem like another, equally good poem, which maybe needs to be set free to live a life of its own?
Thank you for such an engaged reading. 😊
William Shatner had an unexpected emotion when he went in space. How our idealist minds act or wish to act on realities we don’t fully understand. Hence we do the most insane and wonderful things