Tag: Moon
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Soft Landing
Here’s something new from me…a sort of hybrid haibun, published by The Fortnightly Review, the revived 19th-century literary magazine founded by Anthony Trollope. I hope it conveys somewhat my recent experience. Dispatch from the Moon: Soft Landing Haiku moon tonightI lie awake until dawncounting syllables Lunar Codex: A time capsule of art headed to the…
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On the Moon!
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…
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Launching to the Moon!
My poem “4.6 Billion Years” is off on the first of three separate space missions. I’ll be watching–virtually–Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander lift off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. NASA, SpaceX, and Firefly Aerospace are targeting 1:11 a.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 15, for…
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Going to the Moon…
Thanks to editor Joyce Brinkman, my poem “4.6 Billion Years” will be headed to the Moon in 2024 in The Polaris Trilogy anthology as part of the Lunar Codex project! And yes, I’m both starry-eyed and over the Moon! Yes, THAT Moon….