When I was ten, my family took our first great vacation to Orlando, Florida. During the visit we made a day trip to the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral. It’s strange to me that I can barely recall any details of this visit, and didn’t revisit the event until yesterday, when I heard mention of the place. Back then I didn’t see it as a place where history took place or great minds conjured up mountains of advancement, but rather as a giant confusion of space and exhibition, rockets and prominent figures laden with the wealth of their accomplishments. I wonder how I’d view it if I visited today.
Cape Canaveral
On the coast, most
never felt away enough
to make do
but I knew,
Cape Canaveral
said
you’re ten and
I’m your new.
It’s a thousand
or so miles from
here to Mars,
the moon
And we stepped
we stood
we stared out, oh
curious concrete plain
where the acronym
laid, and prayed
no crisis of
Challenger
prevailed, dear…
Eat space food, lets
visit that shore
the one far
away from
far from
my day in
Canaveral.
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