Seeding

Brown dots indicate where Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacted Jupiter’s atmosphere in July 1994. Image credit: NASA/Hubble Space Telescope Comet Team

In lieu of a comet
send this poem
to punch the atmosphere
of another world

and scar on impact

and seed water
everywhere

the words no longer intact
but somehow still mine.

• astropoetry
• Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9
• Herschel
• Jupiter
• poetry