The Names of Distant Stars
by Kendall Evans
Zeta II Reticuli, Arcturus in the constellation Bootes,
UV Aurigae, Tau Eridani, Sirius, Alpha Centauri—
The names of distant stars
are poetry
Hellespontus Noachis, Tempe, Xanthe, Trivium Charontis
Mare Erythraeum, Chryse, Thyle II—
Albedo features found on Mars
are poems too
Copyright © 2009, Kendall Evans
Image Credit: Jurvetson (flickr), some rights reserved
Kendall Evans is the author of two chapbook length poems, "In Deepspace Shadows" and "I Feel So Schizophrenic, The Starship's Aft-Brain Said." He is now at work on a ring-cycle of four connected chapbooks of poetic dramas in free verse. He won a Rhysling in 2006 for a poetry collaboration with David C. Kopaska-Merkel, "The Tin Men".