I'm not a poetry guy, but this Wallace Stevens poem always gets me. Condolences to Virgin Galactic.


I'm not a poetry guy, but this Wallace Stevens poem always gets me. Condolences to Virgin Galactic.

Flyer's Fall
This man escaped the dirty fates,
Knowing that he died nobly, as he died.

Darkness, nothingness of human after-death,
Receive and keep him in the deepnesses of space --

Profundum, physical thunder, dimension in which
We believe without belief, beyond belief.

Photo by me several years ago when White Knight II was new, and Spaceship II wasn't even built yet.

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