Contact - Carl Sagan
CONTACT
By Carl Sagan
For Alexandra,
who comes of age
with the Millennium.
May we leave your generation a world
better than the one we were given.
PART I
THE MESSAGE
My heart trembles like a poor leaf.
The planets whirl in my dreams.
The stars press against my window.
I rotate in my sleep.
My bed is a warm planet.
-MARVIN MERCER
P.S. 153, Fifth Grade, Harlem
New York City, N.Y. (1981)
CHAPTER 1
Transcendental Numbers
Little fly,
Thy summer's pla ...