Verso and recto

Old notebook:
from the smudged Saturn
a new planet.

#NaPoWriMo, Day 9

Solitude

  

Over summer trees

Jupiter encased in blue

brief moment alone.

Whirlpool

miwataseba
giant whirlpool overhead
mirrored in the creek.

new horizons

Haiku I wrote on canvas back for my 6,000th tweet. It was dedicated to NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto-Kuiper Belt. The image is a picture of Pluto taken by New Horizons. (Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute)

one day it happens

Haiku typed onto tissue paper. Background image is an old Moon map.

Glimmer of fire

Text borrowed from 1,000-year-old Japanese poems to create a new haiku. Words pasted onto a meteor track chart from “Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 36; Volumes 1866-1867.”

we are not with you

Haiku on a slice of an image from the Congressional Budget Office report, “The NASA Program in the 1990s and Beyond” (May 1988).

the shy moon

Haiku typed onto a sliver of a moon image from “Smith’s Illustrated Astronomy” (1848).

thank you Cassini

Haiku I wrote for my 5,000th tweet honoring the Cassini mission to Saturn. The haiku uses text from Christaan Huygens’ “Celestial Worlds” (1698). The wavy background made from picture of kimono fabric.

chained to planet-home

Text cut from a 1917 “Popular Science Monthly” article and pasted onto a 19th century French map of Earth.