Understanding Our Solar System
Michael O'Brien Some, such as flat-earthers, have trouble comprehending our solar system which for some reason is not explained well in Genesis. But I spent years in southwestern Kansas, a place of flat earth, indeed. Reading that earth travels 67,000 miles per hour around the sun seemed obvious to me because most days winds whistled across the prairie at about 60,000 miles per, so I never could hold onto my kite, or when playing catch and a gust came up the baseball would sometimes not touch ground until Guymon, Oklahoma and sometimes not even until Texas, actually as far as Amarillo-- out-of bounds for us boys because Mom had known some Texans. |
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About the Author: For over fifty years Michael Jack O’Brien has published in print and on-line journals, most recently, Blue Heron Review, Madness Muse Magazine, One Person’s Trash, and Colloquial. Also, his work has appeared in three anthologies: Gridlock: Poetry of Southern California, Proposal on Brooklyn Bridge, and California: Dreams and Realities.