A Glimpse of Bailey

Within seconds
It just whizzed away
I anticipated
The fascination

To glow
To spark
To flame
To blaze
Too robust

For my imagination
The jagged edge of craters
As it flew by the horizon

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Biography

David Soriano is an associate professor of chemistry with the University of Pittsburgh's Bradford campus in Pa. He is married twenty- four years with two daughters, cat and year-old Bernese Mountain Dog. He enjoys the world of poetry and the people that are part of it. He enjoys poems about nature, time and altered states of consciousness.