051221b

 

five moons wax and wane

Jewish holidays times 5

are exhausting

042221d

 

What I miss most about Earth is skiing. Mars has no snow. And swimming, sailing, flying.... Is it too late to change my mind?

032421b

Something native
Had infiltrated crop genomes
When spines and tentacles grew from our skin
It was too late
To go back to ship rations

031921c

 

Martians got quite good

over the Gy

at cracking hydrated minerals

no surprise  they made short work

of the humans' tanks

airlocks

skin

031621b

 

Waking inside the glass coffin. Stumbling out of a row of identical tubes, all floored with bone and dust. New sun and a dozen worlds fill the viewscreen.

030821b

 

picking seeds from my teeth

one I missed is already growing in my gut

when it blooms

rose petals will follow

wherever I go

030821

 

300 years

I dreamed you stayed on Earth

shriveled in your tube

030721c

 

Martian ice caves

I carve my initials

among the others

030521b

 

native "bird"

inflates its throat

transplanted sparrow

vanishes with a squawk

that sucks

022521

 
a crystal dome

protects Mars' first lichens  

from the sky

021721b

 
native creatures
with spanking new Latin names
they won't be minutes

021521c

 

ancient ships

brought us from the home world

they're pitted, some tumbled

we don't need them now

we've learned to fly

012821c

 

Select 100% terran tuna, certified vat-grown on the home world before the Incident, and cryoshipped directly to the Capital ahead of the wavefront.

012121

 

Neither Here Nor There, a rengay

frozen with you

a faded rose you picked

on sad old Earth

Ship had to wake me early

my tube was on the blink

under far-off stars

I play games with avatars

lose every one

Ship randomly

sets its skill up or down

old 3D vids

with new endings every time

all comedies

cryodeck

and airlocks sealed against me

that one episode

plastic cutlery with meals

spoons only now

I run

shouting through corridors

not my nursemaid!

I’m splicing genes in roses

Ship will save the best for you

I look at the stars

some day Ship will let me have

a knife again

 

011321c

 

seaside bungalow on Titan

no chance of a house fire

but the smell in the mud room!

011221c

 

frozen with you

a rose you picked on Earth

color faded, unlike yours

 

011221b

 

Ship had no choice

but to wake me

tube on the blink

 

011221

 

Ship randomly

sets its skill at chess or bridge

higher or lower than mine

 

011021d

 

How many colony ships, crewed by the durable remnants of their crew and passengers, coast silently through the dark among the stars?

011021b

 

Not Like Fat Tuesday

 

throw me something

when the native trinkets hatched

they aimed for the face