Happy Ed White Day

Today is the 41st anniversary of the first space walk. In celebration, here is a poem I wrote last year about space walking, which was actually inspired by an ad for an online time-share trading service.

EVERYTHING IS CLOSER

And the sun revolves around the moon
Incandescent, belching tongues of flame
Into the oily black
At the tip of my outstretched glove
As I twirl in the void, anchored
To a spinning, sparkling starfish,
Miles above the frosty face of the sky.