While You Were Touching The Second Blackening Sea A research team At headquarters In the operating room On comm lines Setting the stage For a rocket’s take off White coats running around Files and phones in hand Glasses pushed up to The bridge of the nose A cosmonaut strapped in To a frame An explorerContinue reading “While You Were Touching The Second Blackening Sea”
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Upon Closer Inspection
Upon Closer Inspection Here lies A memorial To commemorate Those Cosmonauts Lost Among the stars And old satellites With the cameras And sensors That have long since Faded Fate has ordained Those few who have Gone among the stars To star among the stars When we look up We shall not forget The souls SomewhereContinue reading “Upon Closer Inspection”
Mother of Invention
Mother of Invention I was sailing far away On a ship I piloted In space, the cosmos knelt Towards the vessel I commanded A planet panned into view And here I thought that it was new I anchored to find and see That this was a place that I had been Decades ago I wasContinue reading “Mother of Invention”