Voyager

Let's workshop this poem that, using the metaphor of the Voyager spacecraft's golden records, contemplates the nature of speech and our collective identity within the grand tapestry of the cosmos

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Voyager 

We speak largely
to ourselves 
when we speak—
and so even those
golden records, still

drilling into deep
space, speak largely
to earthlings: signaling
and so spurring
our hope, urging

us to reflect 
on what it means
to be the nodes
in the grand wonder
that we are.

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