It's here at last. Eyes in the know Had spotted it two years ago, A microscopic smut on film. Anxious astronomers protest: Give them a month, and they'll know just what The frozen core is made of, test The fluorescence tailing from it, Fanned out in the solar wind.


Collected Poems - Comet Come (p. 431), Faber & Faber Ltd. 1994

Norman Nicholson Quotes

It's here at last. Eyes in the know Had spotted it two years ago, A microscopic smut on film. Anxious astronomers protest: Give them a month, and...

It's here at last. Eyes in the know Had spotted it two years ago, A microscopic smut on film. Anxious astronomers protest: Give them a month, and...

It's here at last. Eyes in the know Had spotted it two years ago, A microscopic smut on film. Anxious astronomers protest: Give them a month, and...

It's here at last. Eyes in the know Had spotted it two years ago, A microscopic smut on film. Anxious astronomers protest: Give them a month, and...