Vultures and Micrometeorites



Wander down the steel-lined corridors
of Ohm number six.
Each plate and rivet a pattern there and there
a ratted engine
alone beyond the shorting lights.

Polymer and titanium weave,
the carbon-burned suit
you wear about your shoulders hold
nitrogen and O
two from pressure in and out.

Distressing signal in emptiness
transmit between
ragged protean wavelengths barely
silent still, and not
there or there but here.

“Scuttle remains in less
than thirty-two
hours”, head contractor's static response
without the view of
empty eyes and hulls thrown torn.

A single stray less-than-light
and space becomes a junkyard
feast.

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