They speak as if it were a mysterious loverįor the years I lived on coffee and bread, Reprinted with the permission of Graywolf Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, The Good Life

Still, It resists the matter of false vs. Reprinted with the permission of Graywolf Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, It & Co. “My God, It’s Full of Stars,” from Life on Mars. Of family names, speaking (at night mostly) to a face,Ī pair of eyes. The books have lived here all along, belongingįor weeks at a time to one or another in the brief sequence In a cup at Circulation, gnawed on by the entire population. Sometimes, what I see is a library in a rural community.Īll the tall shelves in the big open room. Not caring anymore what might snap us in its jaw. While the father storms through adjacent rooms To sweep us to her breast, she hopes for the best Mouthing yes, yes as we toddle toward the light,īiting her lip if we teeter at some ledge.

Some like to imagineĪ cosmic mother watching through a spray of stars, Maybe it’s more like life below the sea: silent, Man with a ship to catch, a payload to drop, The caravan of men now chasing him like red ants Who is not, in fact, a man, sent to understand We like to think of it as parallel to what we know, Reprinted with the permission of Graywolf Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, My God, It’s Full of Stars – (Section) 1 Kicks up and nothing is ours, we go chasingĪfter all we’re certain to lose, so alive. MoreĪnd we can hold all that we love, it sprawls About her most recent collection, Life on Mars. Smith, a poet and educator, she has published three collections of poetry. “We are part of it,” she writes of the universe and its mysteries. It takes us far away, and very close to home. Tracy Smith’s new collection is called “Life on Mars”. That she would run and run with those images. Little did he know his daughter would be such a poet. Came home bursting with pride when Hubble unveiled the universe. Smith’s father worked on the Hubble space telescope. The perfectly picturesque spiral galaxy known as Messier 81, or M81, looks sharp in this new composite from NASA' s Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes and NASA' s Galaxy Evolution Explorer.

Smith on her new work “Life on Mars” – we’ll talk grief, justice, and outer space and NASA in the family.

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