#AmReading Ghost Apples by Katharine Coles
I personally believe he did say the A in that sentence. That's a small step for a man and it just got swallowed up somewhere. And since I also tend to often not enunciate my words properly, that kind of resonates with me. So really like that poem. Would love it if you could read that one out or any other poem that you may find that's your favorite would be. Be great to kind of hear it on this swell. So thank you again
Arish. I I love that you asked for this poem, that this is one of the poems that you enjoyed in the book. And I think the story is so fascinating that history has Neil Armstrong down as saying that's a small step for man. And Neil Armstrong armstrong claims that he said that's a small step for amen. And there is a big difference between man, which implies humankind and amen, which just implies Neil Armstrong
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:16
But you have a poem that I want to read called Seeing the Black Hole. And I think my dad, who did love poetry, would have loved to play with this. Its form is really unique. I don't know what the form is, so maybe you'll tell me. It's called Seeing the Black Hole and I have a really bad throat and I promised myself I wouldn't talk today
You won't be surprised to hear that the form is something that I made up as I went along to try to express that very thing that you're talking about, about constantly being, as it were, on the event horizon of the poem and either about to fall or falling into the black hole. What I hope is a kind of mystery at the center of the poem. Thank you also for talking about your father. I think you might have mentioned when we met that he was a physicist