you can take sky with you/if you design your spacefaring vessel properly
there’s an expensive way involving a comet core/and a transparent encasing dome/and a huge volume of a mixture of gases
there’s a cheap cheating way/involving LEDs on interior surfaces
and then there’s the loophole/technicality way
and that where when you find your hospitable planet/you simply release some of the air/you brought from you home planet/into the new planet’s atmosphere/and it becomes part of the sky
“There’s a place/Where I can go/When I feel low/When I feel blue…” Maclen
I have heard and read that the most popular beginning for the lyrics to a blues song is “Woke up this morning…” I think I know why: every day is like a little lifetime, and when you wake up you are born.
the day be
gins with ligh
tened sky, with
coffee drip, with bright-hurt
eye–& when you
get a Breakfast
in you, time will let
the day continue.
Here are the words:
the sky is greener
than your eyes
the nitrogen the light
ning strikes the sky
is greener than the moon
takes meteors
and burns them up the
sky is greener than our ways
ionosphere dims cosmic
rays the sky has
helped us come to be
breathe Oh-Two in
enjoy the dawn
Green means many metaphorical things. It may mean Inexperienced, or Jealous, or Envious, or Nauseous, or Fresh. In this case it means Environmentally Sound, of course.
But what of the sky? The sky is what we see when we are on Earth and we look away from the Earth. (Presupposing we are out in the open and uncanopied.) The sky as I write of it here is the Earth’s atmosphere and all it contains. That is not what Sky means, strictly, but “atmospheric envelope” could not be made to work.
We are not gentle with our atmospheric envelope, though it would be perfect for our sustenance if we were. Now a frightening number of environmental scientists say that the climate change our increasingly-unsuitable atmospheric envelope is midwifing will make ordinary life impossible in this century.
Can you help? Are you willing to help? Look in your heart and you may find that you are greener than you think.
Many of us have dreamed something like this. Let us dare to hope that sometime in our lifetimes there will be a safe way to negate the nagging pull of the Earth’s gravity…
One with Clay, Image and Text 