Issue 16
Wing
Allen Itz
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Wally Schirra Is 81
I remember watching
Wally Schirra
report Neil Armstrong's
first step on the moon
Wally wept that night
maybe he cried
for the chance he lost
to make his own mark
in the virgin lunar dust,
or maybe for the earthrise
he would never see
he may have wept
for the lost mystery,
our bright goddess
for a thousand generations
no longer so remote
or, maybe he wept for all of us,
making this first step together,
this first emergence from the womb
of our endangered mother earth
~Allen Itz
Allen Itz began writing again in 1998 after thirty years of attending to
other matters like career and family. His work has appeared frequently in
The Green Tricycle, The Horsethief's Journal, plus a number of other
online poetry journals. Email.
© 2004 by Allen Itz. All Rights Reserved.
© Copyright 2004 by Cayuse Press. All Rights Reserved.