102820c

 

observation deck
a nebula has bloomed
since last I woke

102020c

 

Mom says that one day we'll see the stars move, or my children will, but I can't wait that long. Why did she leave her planet so I could waste my whole life in a can? I need to get out!! I need to get out now!

031420c

generation ship

playing hide and seek

where mama slept

100619

Conveyance

This ship never leaped up into space,

neither does she land,

her belly’s kissed only by stray ions,

and by pinpricks microscopic.

Inside her, people swarm,

parasites injected through her built-in wounds,

they grow til emigrating,

to a warm and weighty sphere.

She looks down,

maps their works,

sees them breed,

spread across the land.

Her empty body in its lonely orbit,

shining in the night,

she receives few visitors.

Finally,

                her lights go out

032019d

Somehow missed
our target star
the rest are gone
the freezers empty
I am writing on the walls
trying to explain
human history
to any who might find this
blunt metal pill
hurtling through nothing
before the heat death of the universe

091816

Life Goes On
 

Hydroponics have gone Precambrian,

olive green cyanobacteria

coat the trays where tomatoes

and beans once grew,

and there's something ediacaran

about the thin flat worms

peristaltically climbing

the pitted walls.

Blue Star by morning,

red star at dusk,

the ship's new ecology,

metazoan free,

eats the controls,

and does not wonder.