At 12:30 PM on June 16, 1963, Junior Lieutenant Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to be launched into space. Using her radio callsign “Seagull”, she reported, “I see the horizon. A light blue, a beautiful band. This is the Earth. How beautiful it is! All goes well.” At 8.30 pm on December 20 1963 I was born and unlike the woman I was named after I have happily settled with exploring the inner spaces.
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Then / On a cold winter’s night in December 1963, in a semi-rural town deep in the Balkans a young woman, not yet eighteen gave birth to a girl child whilst surrounded by two angelic student nurses…
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Below zero to inferno / in one snap of your castanets, / one step of your ruby red shoe upon the dance floor / of a deserted dream, / a tango between your cherry lips and the fever pitch hum / of my…
Always when your eyes glide over to mine, / you peel away layers of lost years and / sentences left unwritten / wrapped around my throat. As with one exposing breath of a gaze / you reveal me, /…