I'm full of sadness and water
Take in these images. Savor their otherworldly beauty. Think about how common they might seem today and how astounding they would have been a hundred years ago, if not a thousand years ago.
Quite literally seeing the unseen.
Top left to bottom right: Sunset on Mars, the surface of Venus, viruses injecting a cell, sperm surrounding an ovum.
As if approaching in an intergalactic spaceship, I love the sense of grandeur captured in this zoomed-in view of NGC 5033. Lying some 40 million light-years away, it features an active and bright galactic nucleus that is thought to contain a supermassive black hole.
(Image Credit: NASA, ESA; Processing: Judy Schmidt)
An excerpt from my new poetry book Unrequited, which has almost 50 new poems entirely about unrequited love.
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