Mars

I just came in from walking the dog. The night was clear. Jupiter and Mars were both bright in the sky.

We live in a time when we get pictures from the surface of Mars, and pretty good closeups of Jupiter. It's peculiar, isn't it, to have such good visuals of such alien environments?

Meanwhile, most Americans can't find Ukraine on a map.

Cold red planet, sister rock,
distant shining place,
somehow it remains a shock
that we have seen your face.