A Place in Space and Time

Tonight Professor Brian Cox

is taking me to Venice – 

and I can't believe it's 19 years 

since I went there in my own body, 

and saw the glass-blowing at Murano too,

and visited Renaissance paintings

huge on old palace walls.

So many years ago and still so vivid!

The husband of my heart 

was with me then.

Now the long-limbed Professor,

laughing with boyish delight,

takes me up to the heavens –

the moon, the planets, the stars,

the Milky Way; the Earth from space

rising in a half-circle, swelling like fruit – 

an apricot, an apple ... but it's blue.

And I begin to think instead

of my blue-eyed husband – now an angel,

wandering the stars without me.

The title belongs to Episode 4 of the BBC's 'Human Universe With Brian Cox'.

I'm linking this to Midweek Motif ~ Nostalgia at  Poets United