011221d

 

But their skulls, fat where the huge brains were, eye holes convenient for fingers, make perfect drinking glasses.

011021d

 

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

121520d

 

A. I. Banks 

paints the town each night

all must go by dusk

murals seen by squirrel and fox

city critters aren't impressed

121520b

 Both ants were stalking him now, scissoring jaws agleam. A feint to left, roll to the right, and the last man on earth wondered...why bother?

121020b

wood-drenched hills forgot

rats whisper legends 

of easy pickings

083120

 

bamboo thicket

doubles in size each year 

since the Fall

082920

 

rumbles from the mountain

 

another year without a summer

another sea carpeted with balls of frothy glass 

and while we're at it

another Earth-crossing asteroid

scores a hit

081920

 

glyphs

carved in the cliffs

giant bones stacked beneath

071120

People are always doing something to the weather, but no one wants to talk about it. Soon, there will be plenty of weather, but no people. Probably then the ants will be talking about it ad nauseam.

061119b

life must exist
out there somewhere
we find only fossils
not even ruined cities

101418

Always a Bridesmaid


A Lagrangian habitat littered with peculiar skeletons
planet wreathed in smog
deserted mining camp on a nearby moon
another job for exo-archeologists
exo-paleontologists, forensic ecologists
we thought we did badly
still waiting for first contact

040918d

the human zoo
had to close its portal
the last exhibit died