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Poem posted: 2008-10-25
Apollo 11
There are moments
when the world’s breath pends within
the fine visor of its atmosphere,
when every twist and fillip of an epic story
travels in the pod of a single word.
One dawns here now,
as a blue moon transits the hazeless dark
above these slatted footprints in the dust:
Earthrise.
