[kennyc]

This poem from the collection was published in the Spring 2014 issue of Star*line:

Visitors


The Earth went dark for three seconds
as the gigantic extraterrestrial ship
passed between it and the sun.

The darkness, the eclipse was the first indication;
no one, none of the telescopes, observatories,
observers or astronomers had seen it coming.

The End Times the believers screamed,
the end of the world the survivalists proclaimed,
we are not alone said the scientists.

And as quickly as it had appeared
it was gone, no sign, no signal
no communication, no trace.

We would wonder, question and ponder this
for five centuries before the next ship appeared
in exactly the same manner.


Kenny A. Chaffin – 2/7/2014


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