Reprinted by permission of The Normal School<\/em>, Copyright 2010 by Chloe Martinez.<\/strong> Their voices come back to us thin with static: almost disappointed, until they turn and see\u2014 rising over that dry horizon, the continents over the Canaries, clear sky over Mexico, It\u2019s Christmas. The astronauts read Genesis And in the beginning God created the heavens <\/em> as travelers, having crossed oceans, stand on a cliff __________________________________________________<\/p>\n CHLOE MARTINEZ’s\u00a0poetry has appeared in\u00a0The Cortland Review<\/em>,\u00a0The Normal School, <\/em>and The Collagist<\/em>, and is forthcoming in Another and Another: An Anthology from the Grind Daily Writing Series <\/em>(Bull City Press, 2012). She lives in Haverford, PA with her husband and daughter.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" APOLLO Reprinted by permission of The Normal School, Copyright 2010 by Chloe Martinez. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Their voices come back to us thin with static: describing a pockmarked dustscape, they sound almost disappointed, until they turn and see\u2014 blue-marbled, strange, familiar\u2014earth rising over that dry horizon, the continents all in their right places, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3755,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":17,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/404\/revisions\/504"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\ndescribing a pockmarked dustscape, they sound<\/p>\n
\nblue-marbled, strange, familiar\u2014earth<\/p>\n
\nall in their right places, clouds<\/p>\n
\nthe sea around the land around the sea.<\/p>\n
\nover the airwaves to the listening world,<\/p>\n
\nand the earth<\/em>, tenderly, with a Texan twang,<\/p>\n
\nsquinting into the distance, trying to see home.<\/p>\n