041320c

shaped triangle
in afarensis rib cage

Paleolithic

022520

A mint condition 20th century boxtop! No telling what collectors will pay for this baby at auction!

101219

Terrible Chicken

Lizard brain stalks its domain,

villagers boil from their nests,

dinner for the king.

Footprints mix in mud, dry.

--much time passes--

Prof. Blattid nods sagely

“These were carved.

“Chickens and humans

“did not co-exist.”

082219c

So many layers of dead civilizations on this world, each built on the ruins of those that came, and went, before. It's depressing. Also, where'd they get all the stuff!? Is the planet hollow, now?

101318

Denisova

Old man swings his legs

blue-gray water surges

crabs scuttle among the rocks

he looks across the water to the sunrise

where are his people?

The hills are bare

across the sea and under it

he cannot find them

he can smell the new folk

on the tall islands

once, he adopted some of the new children

they carved his face in stone

turned on him at the end

but a forest grows as it must.

The new folk swept the others before them

but he contemplates adopting again

or he could rise up over the sea

he could live among them

he could find a woman

bring his people back the old-fashioned way

one child at a time.

080218b

50 ky
ago we blanketed south Africa
my teeth and beads remain

080218

The San
and our other early ancestors
were migrants
seeking a better life
over the next hill
like we do still

120117

Dreaming of Home

time-dilated poems

kept coming long after humanity abandoned Terra

the messages from “Willa” to “Shelle”

proved fascinating to archeopaleontologists

studying the Vertebrate Era

their poignant themes of

exploration/separation

and

anguish/resignation

transcended both culture and phylum;

renowned dance troupe Hive 360 translated several into Bee:

Honey, I Missed the Source

Larvae Found New Hives

and the ineffable

New Queen Swells

091917

Proceedings of the 19^th Galactic Congress/page 1209/Late Archaic Dwellings

Inner Cluster Archeological Aggregate

In this contribution we describe a series of villages (clusters of 3 to 16 dwellings) in the Inc Valley of southern Loomisia. These dwellings have been dated at 1.54 billion years before Congruence (bybc) (+/- 0.065 bybc) using neutrino-trace decay and at 1.44 +/- 0.10 bybc using the comparative muon method. Beta Signoris III (BS3) has been occupied by at least two races that reached the Village cultural level. The villages of the Inc Valley were constructed by the extinct Lopher people, apparently unrelated to the Chtrbэg, who colonized BS3 in 12,967 ybc. Biomarkers from material collected in village 14C (map layer 11) indicates that the inhabitants were part of the third Remul Inflorescence. The dwellings are typically 1.8 to 2.4 meters high at the center, domical, with a single entrance hole generally facing the valley center. Inside, one large room was subdivided into 3 to 4 cubicals. One cubical was reserved for bartering, one for reproduction/food consumption, and others for purposes connected to art (or weather prediction). The outer surfaces of the dun-colored domes bear traces of diverse natural pigments visible primarily in the near-infrared. This is consistent with previous interpretations of thermal murals observed in caves NE of the Inc Valley, which were previously inferred to be products of Chtrbэg of the northern strain. New neutrino-trace dates of the cave murals (p. 1766 of this volume) indicate they are too old to have been painted by the Chtrbэg. 692,236 samples of pigment residue were mapped in one village of 16 dwellings. Response-cycle analysis (diurnal and seasonal) generated a reflectance map covering the period of one year (translated to the visual spectrum on map layer 12). The resultant image stream, viewed as video, depicts construction of an object resembling the 4.2-km high "Face" on BS2. There is no evidence that the Lopher ever existed on BS2. Further research is needed.

Publ. Drowning Atlantis, 2007

120616

planar surfaces
a landscape too regular
no water for eons
refractory chemicals
rust in unexpected places
was anyone here
when we were fish?

062316b

Terraforming


a million-year culture
records carved in salt
rainfall