Brown dots indicate where Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacted Jupiter’s atmosphere in July 1994. Image credit: NASA/Hubble Space Telescope Comet Team
In lieu of a comet
send this poem
to punch the atmosphere
of another world
and scar on impact
and seed water
everywhere
the words no longer intact
but somehow still mine.
New poem celebrating the anniversary of William Herschel’s Jan. 11, 1787 discovery of the moons of Uranus–Titania and Oberon. This piece unites images from a 19th century engraving of Oberon and Titania from Cassell and Company, Ltd and a Voyager 2 picture of Titania the moon (photo credit: NASA, Voyager 2, Calvin J. Hamilton). The text is borrowed from G. Hill’s “Titania’s Banquet, a Mask” (1839) and Arthur Shearly Cripps’ “Titania and Other Poems” (1900).
Sir John F. W. Herschel’s 1859 “Outlines of Astronomy” redacted into a poem.
William Herschel’s “Catalogue of Double Stars,” published in 1785 in Philosophical Transactions, redacted into a poem.
William Herschel’s “On the Power of Penetrating into Space by Telescopes,” published in 1800 in Philosophical Transactions, redacted into a poem.
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