Still catching up on last year’s publications! I’m deeply grateful to Traci Brimhall for inviting me to write a poem for the Skies and Space Edition of Kansas Magazine, and to everyone at Sunflower Publishing, especially Nathan Pettengill for handling my proof. This is my first general magazine publication, and I’m really happy with the poem inspired by the theme. I hope that everyone enjoys reading it and perhaps is moved to visit Powell Observatory or go apple picking in Louisburg and elsewhere in Kansas 🔭🌔🍎 (On a side note, despite what the poem’s speaker says, I do continue to blame things on mercury retrograde 😂)