SCIFAIKU

the edge of the colony

a gust of wind reddens           

my spacesuit

Joshua Gage

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last train–

in its windows

a ghost train            

Michael Nickels-Wisdom

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time lapse

the falling tree leans          

for years

Margarita Engle

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the next millennium

this poem being read        

by your clone

Shawn Bowman

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wet sand

between the robot's toes--  

the setting suns

Michael Dylan Welch

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cold methane mornings

tossed on hydrocarbon seas              

sailing on Titan

s.c.virtes

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Sitting on the moon

All seasons visible 

On the earth below

Susan Palmer

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forgotten planet

on a constellation ear lobe           

home sweet home

Deborah P Kolodji

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Sweltering through a

Summer on Mercury -

Ice water bedtime stories         

Robin Mayhall

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returning patrol

one by one, their tail flares  

extinguished

Joshua Gage

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crackled garments

unearthing the God with            

some minor tearing

assu

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