Did you find a physicist?
Not many scientists here
do telepathy!
Our meditation group
reached out,
found you orbiting;
couldn’t begin to grasp
what you had to impart.
No ‘little green man’,
your projected image
was long, columnar,
non-humanoid …
and yes, green: bright
as if lit from within.
I guess you went home
when your two years were up.
You were friendly and fun.
I liked you.
[Poem #58]
This began as a game some bloggers played in 2008, to write about people who'd made an impact, in the same number of words as one's age, every day for a year. I did them less often and went on longer, adding one word each birthday. I stopped in 2016 and incorporated them into my main poetry blog. In 2019 I resumed the project and gave it its own blog again, with a new name, where it may unfold at its own (slow, intermittent) pace. I've labelled these verse portraits, but they're more like quick sketches: mere glimpses, impressions....
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