POEM: For space shuttle Columbia

What lies there, beyond the hill?

A river’s bend, Oh! What to see?

What will they find,

For you and me?

Those who went so far, so far.

To lead mankind from star to star.

The cost, this was a tragic day.

They chart the course,

Of the Milky Way

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I wrote this in remembrance of the seven astronauts who died in the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia on Feb. 1, 2003.

MARVIN TYACKE

Coeur d’Alene