DID YOU KNOW
Nov 22, 2018
1 minute
Poem by Jessica Kashdan-Brown
Illustration by Claire Scully
That he worked here, at the ESA? Justo asks andI say yes, because even ifThose sun-soaked buildings under Spanish skiesI remember the photos of newly-built rocketsAll those strange machines igniting andThe time we gathered around a too-small screenTo watch the parachute land in a desert that was not oursNo Sahara or Egyptian plane, no dunes or sands whose grains we knewBut the jasper mist of Titan – and my father told usHe did that
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