Astropoetica: Heliopause, by Raul Garcia

Heliopause Symmetrical silicon wings emanate
like stained glass windows
softening the spectrum's wake.
Antennae coordinate logic machinery
forward to the radioactive impasse,
boundless beyond the solar wall
already in termination shock:

against the winds of other stars,
the calm compels instinctive programming—
to plunge
into the turbulent equilibrium.

Image Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab

Raul Garcia is a graduate of New Jersey City University with a BA in media arts. Presently, he is a writing instructor and tutor at the university’s Opportunity Scholarship Program. Furthermore, he is enrolled in a master’s program for media studies at New School University. He has poems published in Marymark Press, Fighting Chance Magazine, Ruah, and Scifaikuest.