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High atmosphere space bounce

in transit beneath dawn moon’s pallid glow,

galactic dazzle and dream talk breaking up

as ambient creatures return on earthbound comet.

Human particles once alive with love

and skill and care skip across ozone–

inside becomes outside nanoseconds at a time.

Entrails of carbon and junk flare and flash

through the heat barrage, the hearts of nations

boom and crash into gravity’s deathly grip

at twelve times the speed of sound.

Data smeared across radar and heaven,

a brushstroke of dust on the edge of moment

glares, gleams, and streaks toward home.