voyage stranded
John Reinhart
spaceship broken spoken spellings
texting homeward hopeful magic
sandhills castles building telling
message blankly blinking tragic
captain spoken motions lighten
heavy demons dreaming sadly
spaceship flounders never brightens
cloudy climate planet gladly
texture tincture foreign fracture
matter science healthy civil
doctors building planet’s structure
future pending human level
urban steeple stable farmyard
rulers councils persons living
breathing hopeful seasons armored
conflict resource joyful given
passing yearly starward seers
stories speaking uphold legends
almost losing spaceship fears
until uphill sounding begins
arrive smoking choking metal
homeward message return shortly
language spoken broken quarrel
insist resist future worry
helter skelter going staying
visions cousins present grieving
boarding skyward elders graying
many steadfast others leaving
exhaust visions homing homeward
outpost settled mettle tested
human glimmers skyward starward
planets watching others nested
first published by Star*Line
