A Muse Bouche

March 2, 2025

Hard to comprehend: My poem, “4.6 Billion years,” selected as part of the Lunar Codex SERENITY archive, was onboard the NASA CLPS-TO-19D mission, launched January 15. It landed in Mare Crisium on the Moon in the early morning hours of March 2. Here is a photo sent shortly after by the Blue Ghost Lander of its shadow on the lunar surface, Earth watching from afar.

LUNAR CODEX is partnered with LifeShip, who sent a plant seed bank in a pyramid-shaped receptacle. LifeShip is partners with Firefly Aerospace whose Blue Ghost is the CLPS lander in this NASA mission.

Holy cow.