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global warming
in Enceladus
leaky roof





Another one bites the dust.

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under a kilometer of ice

kraken moves
maw gaping

sweet metal snack
oxygen burns 
all the way down

stars shine into world ocean
thru closing hole
the boiling sea

what the monster rules
no longer everything

no longer enough

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Enceladus burns with life

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on this ice world
we found an underground sea
inky, cold, and deep
at first
we thought it void of life

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on Enceladus

"rocks" of frozen methane
slide on the underside of its ocean's icy lid

slow currents
mimic the effect of wind
on terrestrial deserts

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LOOK OUT LOOK IN

the Martian earth is still
volcanoes dead these thousand million years
any Marsquakes our own fault
colonial despoilation
mining of unstable soil
the continental plates froze solid
life-giving gases locked in the rock
Mars grew cold
minute fossils oxidized
gone in what passes for soil here
better move on to Enceladus
a world of tectonic ice

when the earth moves there
shockwaves shake the world
volcanoes visible from space
a panspermatic ejaculation
did you feel it too?

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weird to think

skating Enceladus' rinks:

if the ice broke

you'd fall 30-km

unless the Mouthies got you

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In the Enceladean sea

the arms of a colossal squid

encircle the world.

Who wouldn't pray

to such a being

blub blub

Enceladus' ocean may be deeply buried, but ever hear of chemosynthesis? See this year's Rhysling anthology for more "info."