Camera roll

Hasselblad roll
filled up with Earth–
parting glances.

#NaPoWriMo, Day 25. (One of many images of Earth in outbound Apollo 11’s Hasselblad Magazine AS11-36/N.)

Home is where

Home is where
friends come to greet you
when you’re back.

#NaPoWriMo, Day 24. (Image: Soyuz Expedition 26 landing by NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Gloaming

Last pictures:
our hero enters
the gloaming.

#NaPoWriMo, Day 23. (Cassini raw image, Sept. 14, 2017.)

Sway

Sometimes the tempo
is adagio,
and everything sways
like a dirge.
The kelp heaves
towards shore
on slow waves
then drains back out.
The world
clicks the beats
of a funeral march
for me
when I forget
the time.

#NaPoWriMo, Day 22.

Black on Gray

While Lunar Orbiter looped
our grayscale Moon,
Rothko was painting
his final paintings
all untitled
and stark
on that crescent Earth.

#NaPoWriMo, Day 21.

Glamorous

That night
alone on a bench
with a glass of champagne
looking up
I saw a trapeze artist
arms extended
holding the pose
so high above the ground.

#NaPoWriMo, Day 20.

Longing

We both ache,
the brushes and I.
I don’t know how long
they will hibernate
in their plastic bin,
when they will next
drink ink.
I wish
I could tell them.
We wait and watch
for each other’s
stirring.

#NaPoWriMo, Day 19