A Poem For Today - Thomson In Space

[KEN DICKINSON]

Tom Thomson In Space

Some nights, when Tom retires, he pretty much implodes: sucked back through nostril or an ear into the starry void that lies behind his sleep-blanked visage... 

Through his body crouch corpse-still, sunk in suspended animation, arid as freeze-dried food, his spirit finds no rest - a cosmonaut, it treks where no man and even fewer women) have gone before: Tom's Inner Self.  It's never ending mission: to seek out a new life - one not to bear, but live... 

Out of range now of Ground Control, and hurtling straight through Ursa Major, Tom accelerates toward the the inner wall -the universe's limit-of his skull...

Troy Jollimore

The image depicts "Northern Lights," a painting by Canadian artist Tom Thomson, created around 1917. 

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[John Jai Conley]

Tom! You’re just where you need to be. You just need to wake up….

Thanks for this exotic little number, Troy and Ken.

Jai

The way you look at things is the most powerful force in shaping your life.

John O’Donohue

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