Leaf 329 – Art Inspired
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| Eimei Machida - When We Arrive at the Jupiter ... (2003) |
As with Leaf 111, this is another poem inspired by the work of science fiction writer, Arthur C. Clarke. I’ve written in greater depth about my fascination for Clarke’s scientifically optimistic and oddly mystical visions of the far future on my other blog, along with my first, slightly hair-raising reading of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ (1968) during the first Coronavirus lockdown of 2020 (see here). I’ve since read all the other books in the series as well. I think the following haiku/senryu, which was actually prompted by seeing Eimei Machida’ s print, ‘When We Arrive at the Jupiter ...’ (2003), perhaps manages to go some way towards distilling that enormous and ultimately unfathomable sense of possibility which comes with a profound and prolonged contemplation of astronomy.
All these worlds
are yours –
[watching the cursor wink …]
