poem “Jupiter Revealing Neptune”, a poem written on the anniversary of the 1612 date Galileo first found Neptune, about the fear of being a scientist or an astronomer and revealing scientific truths because fo the Church will shun you, and how historically the Church halted real progress, By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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See the YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Until I Get a Chance” (written 12/27, on and for the 1571 birthday of Johannes Kepler), “Jupiter Revealing Neptune” (written 12/28, on and for the 1612 date Galileo first found Neptune), and “Otherwise Forget Life” (written 12/29, on and for the 1972 date of the last weekly release of Life magazine) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 12/29/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Until I Get a Chance”, “Jupiter Revealing Neptune”, and “Otherwise Forget Life” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 12/29/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Jupiter Revealing Neptune
Janet Kuypers
12/28/19, the 1612 date
Galileo first found Neptune
When I need to reconnect to the Universe
I wear my earrings of a suspended silver ball
surrounded by a thin vertical silver ring
When I’m told my earrings look like Saturn
I need to correct them; the rings are going
the wrong way, they’re perpendicular, like
Neptune
When I search for it in the night sky, I know
my search would be to no avail; this deep
blue planet is never visible to the naked eye
When my mind wanders, curiosity piqued
about the altered orbit and horizontal spin
of the rings around Neptune blue as diamonds
when catching the light of the sun, I then
wrap my head around Galileo discovering this
moving “star” when the planet happened near
Jupiter
When he wrote his notes, despite the mounting
evidence, he never claimed this planetary discovery —
possibly from fear of reprisal from the Church
When looking back on his notes, you know
he knew, which makes me wrap my head around
the history of religion rejecting the knowledge of
science

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