050920

A look at Jovian astronomy as a scifaiku:

Europa’s

been slapped around a bit

she can’t leave her Da



Or does it work better as a lune?

Europa’s been slapped

too often

Jupiter’s handprints



Maybe a fib:

 

look

at

her face

Jupiter’s

worked her over good

but still Europa doesn’t leave

111419c

Floating reefs in Jupiter's thousand-mile-deep seas, hundreds of miles long and millions of years old, home to more species of organisms than have ever lived on earth. And this is where the kid wants to go for his 13th birthday. Why not someplace normal, like Disney World Ganymede?

090619c

if the Great Red Storm had dissipated
just a century sooner
the city might have survived
not sunk to the crushing depths
leaving no trace
the diaphanous wind sailors
never built another
before the harvesters came
from Earth

082919d

some planets seem to
collect moons
who needs 65?

it's not like you'll even know
if one should turn up missing

I'm looking at you
Jupiter
learn to share your toys

070819b

you think this air's thick
in Jupiter you can squeeze
diamonds from it

042419

skydiving Jupiter never ends

120118

Belter garbage
launched into Jupiter
Genesis

091518b

exactly like Earth

but the size of Jupiter

oh, the women!

070818c

Jovian tourists
in their trillions visit Earth
a solid world!

070818b

We took almost half a year off
to visit the inner system:
the rings of Saturn
the spots of Jupiter
their moons' ice-capped oceans teeming with microscopic life
the mountains and canyons of the red planet
even our sad, bad original home
desert Earth

Returning to Eris
I knew it was true:
there's no place like home

040518

Earth moved to Jupiter's orbit
waiting for the sun
to go all red giant
on its buttocks
thawing air
by Jove's light
each morning

033118d

no need to keep track
always its night to howl
Jovian werewolf

030918d

Jupiter launches
a fleet of a billion ships
welcome to Saturn

010718b

Evolution of a Poem

Jovian werewolves

can’t get no peace

shave twice a day

spend a fortune on razors

straight razors are the thing

careful with that blade

you can auto-bobbitt

with an ill-timed sneeze




this is more concise and more cutting:

straight razors are the thing

but careful with that blade

you can auto-bobbitt

with an ill-timed sneeze

 

061016

selling ultralights

to the Jovians

economy of scale

060416b

Jupiter's solid core is squeezed
by the worm Ouroboros' twin
its liver pecked out daily
by what passes there for crows

040616b

Each Jovian principality sent an ambassador.
To the new United Nations.
Darn things filled up all of North America.
Who could ever have imagined.
There would be so many nations.
Under those pretty clouds?
We forgot that on top of its huge surface area.
The giant planet had considerable depth.
Nearly all occupied
If they had ever been able to agree
they would have run roughshod.
Over the entire system!

012916

big fish
in a small pond
last in Jupiter
ate his mate centuries past
peers out at moons, twinkling stars