Dead Planet LV

Dead Planet LV
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scifaiku poets—
have a long history &
yet we are still new

we renew ourselves—
like a snake shedding its skin
time slithers, you know.

tell your species—
it's time to morph their genie
words & images.

time is serpentine—
coiling uncoiling wordplay
these alien words.

what if i told you—
in the beginning angel
wrestling-time?

jacob & angel—
a man & an alien
wrestling with wordplay?

living dead undead—
all happening at the same
planetary time.

multi-subjective—
intertextually one
just an illusion?

seemingly unseemly—
your alien gone brother(s)
returning to you?

tricky business—
writing it down quickly since
time gets elusive.

gone, done/redone—
redoing what’s been unsaid
saying it all new.

one’s thigh & one’s tongue—
spraining, unspraining the words
angel in your tent?

not just here on earth—
but all its doppelgangers
telepathic now…

we the aliens—
wrestling with your dark double
dreamtime scifaiku.