030120b

Prairie Seas


Only their heads show above ground;
tumbling from the bow wave:
boulders, bricks, trees and fences;
only the bedrock dense enough to bear them up.
It's deep here on the delta,
so how tall must they be
to break the surface?
Many more are felt as ground shake,
but never seen;

they'll miss the ruins of the city, this time,
though a head, yesterday,
bobbed right through my aunt's two-story house:
the place just blew apart,
naught left but bricks and firewood.
Why are they on the move?
This ain't no seasonal thing,
and, though they aren't remotely human,
 if I am interpreting their expressions
with any degree of accuracy,
we oughta be moving too.

121518d

teleporting in
space cops seize the cargo
refugee humans

113018b

The natives deliver a tiny cow each morning
you squeeze the milk into a pitcher
set the spent cow out
voila! a fat new one in the a.m.

That's how we get babies too!
(you don't squeeze them)
It's a wonderful life
on Vega 3
almost makes up for
our ancestors torching Earth
600C there now--yuck!

Paid for the trip, though
sold Earth to Venusians
got tickets to this new home
all the survivors
 win-win.

102217b

Exodus

A world like any other

makes a place for us,

plastic bridge shimmer

stitches together

a crimson landscape,

eroding mounds

under a bloody sun,

red-veined leaves,

carmine fruit, scarlet vines,

flowers like ripe cherries.

Humanity takes its lumps

like any evacuees,

learns to eat what’s here

Petition to help Syrian refugees

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/president-obamause-the-1?source=c.fwd&r_by=122975