Scifaiku by Yvonne Aburrow
Quanta fluctuate.
Manifest. Unmanifest.
Primordial soup.
The universe is
A photon hitting the eye
Of the Goddess.
How my seventh arm
Aches in subzero climates -
Ageing star, cold world.
Don't open airlock.
Chances of being rescued
Are negligible.
Scoured mould off teacup.
Whole civilisation
Destroyed utterly.
Grandad tells stories
about planet Earth. Green forests?
Trees are purple here.
Don't look now, but it's
got tentacles, and it seems
to be gaining on us.
Eating sushi as
the moons of Betelgueuse rise
over boiling seas.
stars are winking out
one by one. The nine billionth
name of God's been found.
scifaijin wanders
across the galaxy
juggling realities.
Strange how the frogs
invented interstellar
travel. Old pond.
Each choice makes a new
universe. Endless branches
on the cosmic tree.
Looked in the test-tube
My baby was gone.
Changeling child.
a space shtetl
lovers flying across the moon
mournful violins
I can see them but
no-one else can see them and
they're coming for me.
Hyperspace Beltane
galactic hub our maypole
love among the stars
ancestors' dreamtime:
all songlines lead to the stars -
tending their garden
deviance from norm
not encouraged by system:
uninstall software.
skip-diving, space junk,
might find a warp drive today.
Fireweed, rusting hulks.
flies caught in amber
make a beauty of their death -
ancient memories.
fossils found on Moon:
the Sea of Tranquillity
is disturbed by dreams.