Sunday, January 15, 2012

Life Elsewhere


Life Elsewhere


Steamboat tether whispers cuts like jagged glass or dust across time. Water in a black hole or next to it (whatever that means.) But more water than all the oceans of the earth and frozen way frozen. Beyond Mars: billions of trillions, googolplex ice particles reflecting light being rings around planets.

I’m chilly now and I haven’t begun to think about the planets and moons encased in ice – the comets and asteroids made entirely of ice winging their way through space.

Soon our time of moisture will evaporate as this other ice becomes water: moisture and life elsewhere.

Proximal is relative.

Whenever it happens it will still be too soon.




John Bailes/Kotatsu Roko
Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Prospect Hill

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