Two Poems


The S Curve of Return

Reentry is the most dangerous hour of an astronaut’s flight.

You were never a cadet, but understood the importance

of angles, the heat of friction, how uncontrollable the atmosphere.

Someone you loved is dying, sends word with a request you come

home for a church-lady luncheon before he is laid at the altar.
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