Best place on Earth for a ninth birthday party,
a round building where we look into the sky!
Big domed roof like a basketball,
winding stairs lead up to a circular balcony
around a giant telescope--we're in heaven.
Look through the lens at Saturn's rings,
then we're spaceships orbiting the hall,
girls fly round right, boys fly round left!!
Turn out the lights and sparklers
become comets in our hands,
now let's line up like the planets,
you be Pluto, I'll be Venus!
Tang to drink, like the astronauts,
cookies shaped like crescent moons,
maps of galaxies that we can touch,
and in glass cases, chunks of stars.
(c)M. Lee Alexander
from Observatory
Finishing Line Press 2007
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