of the late
(but not gone to the universe)
Carl Sagan's "Cosmos"
is being billed
as the largest launch
of any TV series ever.
One notable aspect
of the premiere is when
the rock star astrophysicist
host Neil deGrasse Tyson
compresses all our
recorded history
to 14 seconds
of a year superimposed
on a 6.8-billion-year timeline.
Executive producer
and widow to Sagan
Ann Druyan
remarks
"It’s the courage of questions
of grasping
our true circumstances
and not pretending
we are at the center
of it all
that is adulthood."
"This show
is a celebration of life."
This poem © 2014 Emily Cooper.
