It’s kind o’ romantic! ~ TV news anchor

Somewhere between Jupiter and Mars

after 10 years, 5 months and 4 days

of chasing, looping the sun,

after thousands of space snaps,

a series of flybys,

mapping and measuring,

spinning its wings,

Rosetta’s in orbit over Chury.

dl mattila

dl mattila is a linguist and poet residing in the Greater Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area. In addition to print and online publications in the UK, the US, Nepal, and Canada, her work appears on the Maier Museum of Art 2011 Ekphrastic Poetry webpage and at the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic in the UNESCO World Heritage town of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. She holds degrees from The University of Texas at Austin, The Johns Hopkins University, and George Mason University.

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