Plunge

Swan dive into cold:
last picture of the giant
as it subsumes you.

Distant Cousins

Your stars are very distant cousins
the family fails to mention

each birth and death
a million oceans away

from family chatter

and not recorded for posterity.

It’ll Do

The camera comes in closer
to the lip of the dish
and calls attention
to the antenna

then dips down to show
the full depth
as the music swells
especially the low strings

we viewers are filled up
down to our toes

as if the dish were an ocean
we were seeing clear to the bottom of

glistening with fish
–the sparkling percussion tells us so–

we stare down but are somehow staring up, too
into more ocean
than we could ever imagine swimming in.

It’ll do.

It will be a clear day

It will be a clear day
when I leave the Earth

trouble capped at 10,000 ft

and birds below
will circle in
and repeat a sound
from a poem
I knew well

just out of hearing.

 

 

Hic sunt dracones

  

Comet 67P

  

“Zero g, and I feel fine.”