Science Art: Barnard’s Star, by Kate Horowitz.

after Ann Druyan

I send for you my heartbeat,
the rhythms of my latest dream.
You are just now finding the frozen clicks
of muscles, cooling like just-parked cars.
Through endless fields of fire and dust,
we send whale song, one noisy kiss.

Every other romance
is nothingness now, every whale
a great cage of bone and blue air.
But fast to you, bright Ophiuchus,
one whispered love is dancing.

More about the Voyager Golden Record here.
Ann Druyan, Carl Sagan’s widow, tells her love story here.

From Things Written Down, found [via].

Tags: astronomy, space exploration