the edge of the colony
a gust of wind reddens
my spacesuit
***
last train–
in its windows
a ghost train
Michael Nickels-Wisdom
***
time lapse
the falling tree leans
for years
***
the next millennium
this poem being read
by your clone
Shawn Bowman
***
wet sand
between the robot's toes--
the setting suns
Michael Dylan Welch
***
cold methane mornings
tossed on hydrocarbon seas
sailing on Titan
s.c.virtes
***
Sitting on the moon
All seasons visible
On the earth below
***
forgotten planet
on a constellation ear lobe
home sweet home
Deborah P Kolodji
***
Sweltering through a
Summer on Mercury -
Ice water bedtime stories
***
returning patrol
one by one, their tail flares
extinguished
Joshua Gage
***
crackled garments
unearthing the God with
some minor tearing
assu
***

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