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Poem by me in A Poet Explores the Stars, ed. by J. Alan Erwine.(ISBN 9781697141443). Also includes work by Lisa Timpf, Juleigh Howard-Hobson, Mike Morgan, & many more.

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moon's
dark side
first green leaves

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primitive ship

artificial brain yields

homeworld coordinates

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we would explore
the inner system's huge worlds
even Pluto's much too hot
our ship would boil

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hellscape
this iceworld
even lead freezes

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no rust
on this airless world
billion-year-old tools

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strange folk

inhabit the western isles

legs legs legs

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Colonize Mars

It doesn't matter that we will
contaminate the place
with our DNA-based life
if anything lives there
if anything ever lived there
that might be based
on some other biochemistry
it's nothing but single cells
not as important
as our escape from Earth

If we find native organic material there
that's lagniappe
besides
the rovers have already done the dirty deed
we find life underground
it'll be something we brought ourselves