Star Travelers…
in deep freeze.
Cosmic-leap frogs
in cryogenic slumber:
Hermetically sealed
envelopes
addressed to a star
that seems
a universe removed.
Going under,
giving way
as the lay of the land
to omnivorous fog.
Drifting off
on crystalline ice ships—
Higher Seas Cryonauts
hold heroic
one frame
of a frozen dream
pressed and burning
to one mind’s eye.
And all encased
like butterflies
in Chrysalis:
Galactic Pioneers,
In icy tubes of glass…
settle on down
into deeper freeze.
Monarchs
of Inconceivable
Space:
Suspended in Time
And Ice
on Interstellar-Pods
Of Seed!
About the Author
Dean Schreck is a retired Long Islander writing since age fourteen. His work has appeared in Voices International, Space and Time, Altered Reality, New Myhts, Trembling with Fear, Literary Hatchet, Eldritch Tales, Littoral, The Chamber, Weirdbook, Dreich, Penumbric, Zephyr, Magical Blend, Owlflight, Reflect, Footsteps…to name a few. Dean is a child of The Golden Age of SF and Horror, Woodstock—and longtime student of the spiritual/paranormal.
