SCIFAIKU

dead cows--

those lights we saw            

near the pasture

Tim Jamieson

***

he used to like the sun

summer playtime as a kid

his ship burns to bits         

Lena Judith Drake

***

Venusian League :

a runner stranded             

over third

Shawn Bowman

***

--can't have enough--

Blank molds

my 3d printer                     

and you.

David E. Howerton

***

morphing on contact

to fulfill his wildest fantasies        

containment breach

Terrie Leigh Relf

*

Annie Lenox singing

"The Neutron Dance"

10,000 lightyears from Earth        

Terrie Leigh Relf

*

shuttled between

Deimos and Phobos

--hydroponic lemons      

Terrie Leigh Relf

***

time travel -

my youth and I

don't get along

Shawn Bowman       

***

first summer on the ice planet 

dandelions peeking

through the cracks

Beth Langford

***

champion athletes,

victory through chemistry--         

the soldiers are next

Daniel C. Smith

***

on our spacesuits

and now our faces--       

Mars dust!

oino sakai

*

on Rameses Two

we see it as horizontal :         

the Milky Way

lucindab

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ancient starlight--

space junk

slides into orbit             

Michael Dylan Welch

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