03/13

NASA Research Confirms Saturn is Losing its Rings

i ask the earth everyday 
what it feels like to have creatures
crawling across her
what kind of company 
an organism can be
i want
just one
if i could have just a single 
warm body 
i might believe the
colors of my surface
i would name that animal
tell them stories about how
i've watched all the other planets
the earth with its blue blue bones
angry red-eye jupiter
uranus
her light quiet halo
i want to give her everything:
the words i've spoken towards solar glow
the pieces of space & star i've collected 
to make myself less lonely
i don't want to hoard particles anymore
you can't take these things
with you when you fall into yourself
our lives are too short for that
i imagine the pieces finding their way
to her collection
her rings growing thicker & thicker
as i watch from a distance
as i speak towards her 
hoping one or two words 
land close enough
for her to know me
i ask the sun as i turn
why he made us so so far apart
i run my fingers through my rings
touch space objects
to feel alive
i imagine all us bodies
close together
our competing gravities
our memories rippling in each other's skin 
all the animals on earth
i could reach down
add them to my rings
tell them how much 
i have loved them
how their short determined lives
have made me want give away 
my objects
replace them 
with organisms
earth tells me
their bodies are warm

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