Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission I has completed the scientific portion of its mission, but its cultural mission as repository for a portion of the Lunar Codex is just beginning. The lander’s payload includes The Polaris Trilogy: Poems for the Moon, which will also journey to the moon’s south polar region aboard Astrobotic’s Griffin lander in 2026.
I am deeply honored to have a poem in Volume 2 of the collection, whose theme was Stars, Sun, Moon. I share the poem here, first published in The Polaris Trilogy: Poems for the Moon (Brick Street Poetry, Inc., 2023), in hopes it will encourage you to find a copy of the book and read all the amazing poems it contains from people around the world.
Without even getting out of bed
I cannot be bored with so much
world at hand: day slides in and out
of night; stars make room for moon
who yields to sun; clouds and other shadows
play through leaves, over the counterpane.
What more awaits me when I rise?
The Daily Compost 