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To: Condor who wrote (104)	12/10/2001 11:58:03 AM
From: Condor	Respond to of 1203

The preceeding poem composed by a friend of many here on SI has just been issued for publication. I am very grateful that we have been allowed to post it here on Astronomy Buffs before the "world at large" gets to enjoy it. It is wonderful wouldn't you agree? Regards C

To: Condor who wrote (104)	12/10/2001 12:10:46 PM
From: FaultLine	Respond to of 1203

The Meteor Shower captures the joy and mystery of my own star-gazing experiences -- the wonder of it all is such a deeply personal emotion as I ponder our place in the Universe. We are star-stuff...rocks become conscious... the universe contemplating itself. Thanks Leslie. Thanks Condor. --ken/fl

To: Condor who wrote (104)	12/10/2001 5:07:23 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 1203

Beautiful. Very moving. I envy her being able to see it so close to home. The times I have watched special phenomenon from home, it has given it a more intensely personal experience than out in some strange place in the country, as she describes. "Here I am, and there it is, and home hasn't changed, but somehow I've become different."

To: Condor who wrote (104)	12/10/2001 6:07:13 PM
From: ~digs	Respond to of 1203

Condor thanks for posting that... Nov 18th was my birthday and although I did not see the extraordinary storm that I had hoped for.. it was certainly an unforgettable experience. We actually went down to the lake and watched the show off the end of our dock... so Leslie's poem has some nice synergies with me. I particularly liked the last passage with its eloquent reference to time and place. Seldom do we have the opportunity to witness such an amazing astrological event. I am glad to have taken notice.

To: Condor who wrote (104)	3/5/2002 9:36:49 AM
From: Condor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1203

Congratulations to one of our own Astronomy Buffs: One of our contributors here has been chosen to read a number of her poems (including "The Meteor Shower") at an event in April at which the Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry will be reading. The Meteor Shower In the morning's empty hours, before dawn reduced the world to a familiar size, before the Sunday paper slapped our fieldstone walk like a judge rendering a verdict, we stood on the dock as the heavens spit stars over the water. How much did it matter that the comet had passed through nine years before the founding fathers wrote our country into being? We were tardy witnesses, swiveling toward the general store, home of ice-cold ice, toward the church whose cross had been knocked flat by a lightning rebuke last winter. Meteors shot through Orion's belt, dribbled into the Little Dipper, blazed yellow and ghost-green trails that shimmered for seconds--or was it centuries? Time had accordioned outward to its fullest, a breath held at the point of pause before contracting. We turned toward home and saw suspended above our house a fiery arc, a comma, as if to say This is where we live, and when. ~Leslie McGrath