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Apollo 14

6/7/2017

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Commanded by Alan Shepard, Apollo 14's lunar module Antares​ landed on the moon February 9, 1971. The following poem by Tom Disch appeared in Poetry ​magazine one year later, in the February 1972 issue:

​Apollo 14
by Tom Disch

At this height there is neither winter
​Nor any form of weather--an absence
In which the only turning
Is the turning of the eyes to view
​Unvarying stars, the only bending is the heart's
Slow bendings on its soft stem;
The months become enormous--years,
​Millennia--distended spheres that rise
​Above the bordered oceans, the mere dapplings
Of day and night, until they reach
This fleshless moment here--
Every voice every gesture
​Compressed into a single point of light.

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