Silverlight (No 2 of ¡Las Canciones Bravas!)

Mars rover Curiosity safely lands on the red planet

Independent, 6 August 2012

I surface to splashing and children's
shouting - the world washed out
in silverlight, dry-mouthed -
the sounds of waterplay,

like the morning after the night
a man on the moon really became
the man on the moon, and I came to
to the echo of my name.

(c) Slush Poet