They put a robot car on Mars to take pictures of rocks.
It takes quite a while for the data to come back.

About my future, I am undecided.
There is no job for thinker of naïve love thoughts.

I have written poems and listened through a dead speaker to the radio.
The voice I thought was singing to me died yesterday.

Imagine impermanence as a mountain meeting a plain.
You won’t know where to look.

Imagine a face in an alien landscape.
Let desire turned machine roll over it real slow.

Kyle Vaughn

Kyle Vaughn’s poems have recently appeared in Adbusters, The Boiler, and Vinyl; his prose in English Journal; and his photography in Annalemma and Holon. His book A New Light in Kalighat, featuring photos and stories about children in Kolkata, India, was published in 2013 and featured by Nicholas Kristof's Half the Sky Movement. His book Lightning Paths: 75 Poetry Writing Exercises was released in 2018 (NCTE Books).