19. Poetry by Katerina Bruno

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were young space cadets once & other poems

were young space cadets once
contented pensioners now
iron wills flashing

a starship knows space
a captain, her mind and heart
a squiddy, just rank

space missionaries
converting sentient life
a real rarity

space monk in deep space
a high-tech monastery
long meditation

racing laser blasts
a deep space entertainment
as old as new stars

moon tycoons have strung
zip lines from space zeppelins to
tranquility Base

a deep space trash gyre
nobody understands how
no currents in space

my silver spacesuit
silver flashing memories
flashing silver death

when I die out here
timeless frozen memory
orbiting this moon

no comms out this far
I am a flying outpost
never to return

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