An Extract from this Month's Release: The Sky Child
To celebrate this month's release of the second edition of 366 Days of Poetry released. Links to the collection can be found at: https://books2read.com/u/3n2Yv9 . The Sky Child Written on August 3, 2015, for the April 16 entry of 366 Days of Poetry , this piece imagines what a poet might say about a person born and raised on a deep-space freighter or transport. The sky child wakes, screaming at the dawn, begs to be taken shipboard, where the air is stale and warm, begs to be let run and play in the stillness she can find within the starship’s metal hull, its climate-controlled confines. The sky child was born amidst the stars on a spaceship running deep through the vacuum and the warp surrounded by the black. She has never felt a planet’s breeze, or played beneath a planet’s sky. The only suns she knows of are the mighty stars she passes by. Grass holds a special terror, as does dirt...