7/23/2020

The Desolate Set





   The long awaited savior arrives in disguise at the microscopic level, a safety feature of its programming installed long ago and now prepared to continue its execution. With a clarity of vision restored for all to see, during the next stages we get to find out who remembers the face that we have all glimpsed in the mirror together. 

   When you round up from this current cast of characters, there are more individuals coming down the line. Those are the beings who will be looking into their set of stars for us, their eyes searching the skies in fascination. Their heartbeats will quicken as they imagine what the extraterrestrials must be like, without having any idea they were ourselves, of course. 

   And no matter how like us they might actually be, their own sense of wonder will likely render us far more fantastical than we really are. That is because of the great secret hidden out in the wide open yonder. They will be (more or less) just like us.   


7/16/2020

Polaris of the Autarch

 

    

     




     May as well name the stars 
   and deep regions of space 
  after mythical beasts and
also believe we'll trade spice 
imported from the cardinal 
 wide dry desert of Arrakis 
   at least just to be honest 
  there's nothing made up 
 that isn't a crude portrayal 
of what is really going on 
 so long it wears scarves 
  of embodiment regarding
   a look in a mirror galvanized.
    Shocked moment of revelation 
   the thing now staring back at you  
  to recognize your eternal solitude
 sees the one thing  now examining it 
cannot ordinarily reflect thunderstruck
 bolt of lightning stitch every alien night
  nested together in a string of pearls
   flashed across the winds of time 
    blasts the sands off the crest 
   of this old diminishing dune
    relaxing in a sigh just fine.