Beyond

The Poet's Touch

Jacob is my special child,
soft spoken, sensitive to sound, touch, water and light.
My nine-year-old communicates his plan
to join NASA
and work on the Hubble Telescope
In preparation for his space flight.

"I will explore emerging structures
of star forming galaxies outside the Milky Way."
His Para tells me Jacob dares to challenge.

Our family scientist sniffs
while I stir a winter's chili supper.
I ponder my own childhood dreams
of a different space ... outside space
in cotton fields and meadow streams
for solitude ... to be alone.

Jacob 's understanding is deeper than mine
when he shares a tangent of his world.
He reads to me.

"In search of extraterrestrial intelligence
a new Earth-sized planet found, appears to be
potentially habitable."

Will my son find he is touching the heavens
when his craft lifts from solar winds of the cosmos
into celestial spheres beyond?
Will he greet those lofty winged guardians
who tend Elysian Fields and
find we are not alone, after all?

All God's Angels come to us in disguise.
—Lowell

Beyond

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by Rita Goodgame

Rita Goodgame has won an Arkansas Writer's Grand Conference Literary Award,
prose/poetry first place awards in ByLine Magazine and The National League of
American Pen Women, Pioneer Branch. Her work has also appeared in publications
such as Women's World, Grandmother Earth, Soiree, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,
The Bulletin, International Old Lacers, Inc., and Our Arkansas ... Special Places, '09.

Photo of Milky Way Courtsey of NASA, ESA, and M. Livio and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)