Long, at last, The Vostok had pierced the darkness
and thrust Yuri into the firmament;
We leapt from spherical craft to the vault
of heaven, and waded ourselves in a bit
with legs new formed like a tadpole in morph.
Category Archives: Science Poetry
Habitual Bipedalism and Episodal Humanism
Ever since the first grass blades gathered
beneath the feet of wandering birch trees
those little leafs have made us leap and flee;
our hips an Eocene launch toward hazards,
To The Scientific Minded
We adapt and flex as rubber,
because, for us searchers, wonder
finds answers that aren’t writ in stone,
Telescope Eyes
Often I think that people are distant
and only look close when viewed from a far;
Each star its own among the crowded streets
and lonely bars; each a beacon that peers
On Flaming Ships in Darkness
On flaming ships in darkness,
the pitch-black of inflating blindness grows boundless on every-side,
A Pharaohs Rise
Among the worlds most pressing ruins I have seen
artifacts come rising as phoenixes
to part their form from the fierce driven wind
and sand that whirls around in its dying