Mother, any distance

• "mother any distance, greater than a single span requires a second pair of hands"
• "anchor. kite."
• "i reach towards a hatch that opens on an endless sky"
• "to fall or fly"
• "i space walk through the empty bedroom"
• "you at the zero end"
• published in 1993 by Simon Armitage
• inspired by the Space Race of the 1960's
• he moved three doors down from his mother