Writers'
Craft - T-9 Minutes
Systems
check
(…a complicated
affair, this launch
so many contingencies
yet we’re understaffed—a team of one
disaster can take so many forms
and even the hardened poet’s heart yaws
at the breathlessness of escape velocity
no composite
materials here
simple propellants
words in a delicate structure
staged in such a way as to pitch and roll right here
there is an
undercurrent of fear
in this
can my words outstrip the gravity
of earthbound experience?)
Are the ideas
viable?
Systems check
aborted
Ignition and liftoff
Adrian Hoad-Reddick