I started with Barbara Hamby's poem "Thinking of Galileo," and proceeded to the song "Galileo" by the Indigo Girls, then added in some words from Amy Grant's "Galileo." I made a list of words from all these texts and then let it sit. The opening line came upon me after a couple of days. This is completely mixed, and I only vaguely know what comes from where.
I also read up on Galileo: such a fascinating individual. I find science entering my life in mysterious ways, and this is one of the ways.
Galileo Was Supposed to Study Medicine
I’m the astronomer of
my own constellation
Traveling my own
orbit
Morsel of light
Darkest night
Starlight
Insight
Virtuous life
Don’t fear the black
holes
The unending inertia
Vivid velocity,
Deepening discovery
Sun spots and moon
mountains
Speaking slowly into
the light
Until my soul can get
it right
Gold waterfalls of
stars cascading
Arcs of color and
light
Fear of motion
Across the ocean
Night vision
Inspiration
Revolution
Bombshells
A miracle occurs
With the tattered
debris
Of an attitude like
mine
Dreams easier to find
Enough wandering now
In the moon-drunk sky
Lightning strike
Perhaps my soul is
finally getting it right
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