Rash blasts of motivation
took him to that extrication
where beyond our languaged limits
and brilliant point of view,
through transparent ceilings, he saw
(what were his feelings?)
dust return to dust
without him.
Gods, just think ye,
what he knew.
Whew.
One great slice of norms church-kept forms
lucid from that loosed pew.
There's more?
Well, yes, at least,
let's guess that on
and on and on and
on and on and on and
on and on and on and on
he flew.

In the section of Detroit known as the "Cass Corridor", Jim Pallas lived next door to Lawrence Pike.  In 1965, he illustrated an early version of  Lawrence Pike's Poem  "Report on a Man Learning to Fly at a Really New Altitude."
Pike  published it as "The Astronaut" after making some minor changes to it.
Pallas used a combination of intaglio etching with sugar lift and relief printing  for some of the letters and color shapes.along with collaged elements.  Only two impressions of this work exist.  The Pikes and Pallas' separately moved to Highland Park and Jim and Larry coincidentally taught at the same local college.  They continued to collaborate until Pike's death in 1994.