In my dreams
I race paper boats
on Titan.
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Huygens’ descent: final moments before landing
10 km up
Planetary Worlds
Let’s go for a creek walk

Image of Titan’s surface taken by the Huygens probe on January 14, 2005. Image credit: ESA/NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Let’s go for a creek walk
you and I
and skip rocks across
the methane
and maybe we could picnic
in a spot with a view
of the etherized sun
that might as well be
sunset on a foggy beach
back home.
Let’s go for a creek walk
you and I
and turn over some rocks
that are not
gneiss, schist, or quartz.
but leave the bucket behind.
I’m not expecting to find crawfish
this time.
I’ve walked a lot of creeks
in my life
some with fast water
some with slow
some with no
and trust me
we need to check this one out.