This message comes from Norton Young Readers of In Praise of Mystery from US Poet

Loria Aida Lamone and Caldecod honor-winning illustrator Peter Seis, a transcendent picture book featuring the poem that will travel into space aboard

NASA's Europa Clipper in praise of mystery, celebrates humankind's curiosity.

Asked us what it means to explore beyond our known world and shows

how the unknown can reflect us back to ourselves.

In praise of mystery is available wherever books are sold.

I'm Major Jackson and this is the slow.

And this is the slowdown. Recently, I read an op-ed in a local newspaper that complained about the appointment of a

State poet laureate. The author made claims that the new

Laureate's poetry was incomprehensible. He insinuates that theate should write more like a celebrated older male poet who makes people laugh.

He ends by calling poetry today, High Felutin. I took umbrage, but ultimately I was saddened that this person

carries a long-held suspicion about seemingly difficult art.

The beauty of poetry is its diversity and how it gives us an opportunity to feel language,

rather than the poem acting only as a substitute for Hallmark

card or occasion for a punchline. Today's image-driven poem might seem difficult, but a pattern emerges out of the

catalog of dream-like lines that reveals a powerful statement about social class, nature, urban environments, and ways of seeing.

Pacific Power and Light by Michael Dickman

One way to see is through a window pane or disco-hama.

Starlight hangs from a freshet in the front yard. Telephone lines or Unagi race up Foster

road to an adductor in my childhood window.

Bedroom hatcheries lit up at night by car lights and drop-offs awake in yellow sodium. Electric eels. The Coke in the fridge has a half life. The

grass is soaked and has never heard of us. The universe seems out of whack.

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