“Second Chance” by Darrell Lindsey

An amber starship of dizzying origin

flung the horizon open

with its glittering power beam,

& we vowed to reclaim the golden path

torn from the eyes of our ancestors

during that winter war with aliens

(many millennia ago)

when skies were closed like vaults,

& dreams warped to dust.

We must yet learn to unclot

the veins of our own history,

time travel to the bones

of the Universe

that are still drifting

in a rattling bag

full of voices.

Darrell Lindsey is the author of Edge of the Pond (Popcorn Press, 2012), and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize (2007) and a Rhysling Award (2014). He won the 2012 Science Fiction Poetry Association Contest (Long Form category), as well as the 2014 Balticon Poetry Contest.

Published in Kaleidotrope, Spring 2016 | www.kaleidotrope.net

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“Second Chance” by Darrell Lindsey