Orbital

part seven

What are periods like in space?
Or in the end, do pills replace
the rythms of earth and moon,
the planetary tides in tune
with human Whys.
Upon what cycles do you now rely?
 

Virtually
in space, enshrouded in an earthly mist
of Avalon and oxygen, like another skin.

All
the world transformed
in the information you explore
so far from any welcome shore.

Air
and water recycle through your flesh
absorbsion, emmission, sensation,
and the rest
which separates you from any
Turin test

Which might
reveal another life
better suited to interstellar flight,
able to suspend its energy
until it closes on another light
for inspiration.

Manifest
in its own creation
beyond the ken of our relations
as a satellite drifts from its station
with anchor weighed in stellar dawn

Does space exchange
 the tides and trade winds
which once moved us on
for other lives evolving away from us?

Some rear view
mirror of a shrinking world
skips through the gravity that masses hurl
in orbit on the solar systemís plane.

Sight
which directs the gaze,
an attraction to light
as a moth round a flame

or hands,
grasping a reinvented wheel
remnnant of thoughts which think and feel
or
Electronic
calculations of magnetic or emotional
radiation
which helps maintain an even keel?
 

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