Like the mixing salt and fresh water
making it not favorable for either species,
we have come to a brackish place —
marsh grass obscuring our view, and we,
like young crabs, hiding from imagined predators.
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It’s Raining Diamonds
The crescent of Neptune and Triton, captured by Voyager 2 on August 25, 1989, as the spacecraft headed toward interstellar space. (Credit: NASA-JPL)
Voyager visited finding storms, a cyclonic
Great Dark Spot. Your biggest moon, Triton,
is a captured dwarf planet. Carbon squeezed
out of methane mixes with water, creating
crystallized carbon. It’s raining diamonds on Neptune.
Neptune’s Great Dark Spot, a huge and surprisingly vigorous storm, imaged by Voyager 2 on August 23, 1989. (Credit: NASA-JPL/Justin Cowart)
The Circle
Reading in circles by the lake watching
a lone bee settles on a puddle
birds using the shore as a bath
while a stream flows into the lake
which drains by river to the sea.
Labor Day
This day set to give rest to laborers
is not a weekend, back to school,
or merchandise on sale. Science confirms
this is not the end of summer —
then why am I so terribly sad?
The Twins
This morning, the waning crescent Moon fronted
Gemini the Twins – Castor and brother Pollux.
Not identical. They don’t really look alike.
Pollux is brighter, more golden. Favored child?
All of us unique. All are stars.
