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Student Independent News

NUI Galway Student Newspaper

Creative Corner: SISTER

October 4, 2018 By SIN Staff
Filed Under: Creative Corner

By Meabh Ann McCrossan 

 

She broke her leg once, 

years ago, 

and lost her job as an astronaut. 

 

‘Turn in your space helmet 

and moon shoes 

pronto,’ 

They said, 

 

after deciding, 

all by themselves, 

that all she would do now  

was shatter in space. 

 

Well, I can’t help but shatter  

on earth 

every day, 

 

and yet she 

in her cast, 

fast-healing, 

sits among the sparsiles, 

asks how they’re feeling.

 

Photo by Adam Miller on Unsplash

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