Poem: "The Sky in Hand"
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ysabetwordsmithThis poem is the freebie for the July 5, 2022 Poetry Fishbowl reaching its $100 goal. It was inspired by the ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
sunshine_challenge and Prompt 5 bonus: Peridot. It also fills the "hand" square in my 7-1-22 card for the Body Parts Bingo fest. This poem belongs to the series Arts and Crafts America.
"The Sky in Hand"
[July 2022]
They lie hidden
in a few asteroids,
the green jewels
called pallisites,
a type of olivine
or peridot found
only in space.
Beneath a surface
of sleek nickel-iron
they wait, lucent and
beautiful, green-gold
as the eyes of cats.
They are memories of
a molten history that you
can touch and hold, a way
to take the sky in hand.
These peridots can be
cut free from the larger mass,
left with only a slender frame
of meteoric metal around them
as a testament to their origin.
Astronomers wear these
as a sign of their profession,
but always hidden under
a shirt or in a pocket,
as they were meant to be.
* * *
Notes:
Peridots really can be found in some asteroids, where they are called pallisites.
sunshine_challenge and Prompt 5 bonus: Peridot. It also fills the "hand" square in my 7-1-22 card for the Body Parts Bingo fest. This poem belongs to the series Arts and Crafts America."The Sky in Hand"
[July 2022]
They lie hidden
in a few asteroids,
the green jewels
called pallisites,
a type of olivine
or peridot found
only in space.
Beneath a surface
of sleek nickel-iron
they wait, lucent and
beautiful, green-gold
as the eyes of cats.
They are memories of
a molten history that you
can touch and hold, a way
to take the sky in hand.
These peridots can be
cut free from the larger mass,
left with only a slender frame
of meteoric metal around them
as a testament to their origin.
Astronomers wear these
as a sign of their profession,
but always hidden under
a shirt or in a pocket,
as they were meant to be.
* * *
Notes:
Peridots really can be found in some asteroids, where they are called pallisites.
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Date: 2022-07-18 02:16 am (UTC)a molten history that you
can touch and hold, a way
to take the sky in hand.
I really love this bit right here.
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Date: 2022-07-20 12:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-07-21 12:54 am (UTC)Thank you!
Date: 2022-07-21 01:23 am (UTC)Re: Thank you!
Date: 2022-07-21 01:35 am (UTC)Re: Thank you!
Date: 2022-07-21 01:45 am (UTC)Re: Thank you!
Date: 2022-07-21 01:48 am (UTC)Re: Thank you!
Date: 2022-07-21 01:58 am (UTC)You might want to carry a printout proving it exists. It's obscure enough that not many people know about it. (I stumbled across one in a traveling collection at a science fiction convention, where a rockhound jeweler had brought a few things to show off.) When I mentioned it to an astronomy professor in college, he didn't believe me. I printed off a reference. He geeked out over it. That's the only time I ever saw a teacher happy to be proved wrong.