071819c

thousand-year orbit
winter's long
but oh sweet summer

061819c

cold country

Sol a pinprick
Oort generations

live and die
with only one season
it's never spring

100718

billions of tiny
worlds tell rumors of the sun
Pluto's hot self

092718

nudged out of orbit
end of a billion-year night
in gaudy flares

071618b

the icy spheroid
deformed, its
chondritic moon, a

captured asteroid
whizzed around
and its ice wolves howled

051618

it takes the outer worldlets
centuries to millennia
to dance around the sun  just once
colonists live and die
and nothing seems to change
least of all the cold
and dark
small wonder many return
though the journey takes half a lifetime
to what's left of
cinder earth