Pg. 59 — SIGNS OF NOVEL TECHNOLOGY by Wendy Van Camp
seen through ocean fog
mysterious orbs of light
buzzing battleships
fighter jets scramble
chase saucers across the sky
nothing to see here
discs flit overhead
nuclear power draws interest
all hands on the deck
sailors point at Pleiades
for disc under hazy moon
ET please go home
Editor’s Note: Wendy states that these SciFaiku were inspired by the recent reports from the US Navy about UFOs.
Wendy Van Camp
Wendy is an author, poet, and illustrator. Her writing blog No Wasted Ink features essays about the craft of writing, poetry, and author interviews. Wendy’s short stories and poems have appeared in science fiction magazines such as Quantum Visions, Scifaikuest, and Far Horizons. She is the poet and illustrator of The Planets: a scifaiku poetry collection and the editor of the speculative poetry anthology Eccentric Orbits 2. A graduate of the Ad Astra Speculative Fiction Workshop, Wendy has won Honorable Mention at the Writers of the Future Contest, and has twice been nominated for an Elgin Award.