Odysseus by Phoebe Barr
It’s been quiet here.
I don’t mean the sounds. It’s just - all so clean,
airtight,
vacuum-packed and controlled.
So careful.
We with our treadmills, working our legs each day
so we don’t forget what it is to walk
while we float through the star-drenched heavens -
incredible thing,
to land on rock again
and know you’ve returned to a world that flows.
- diary aboard Odysseus I, day 1 of contact
(this is shit. i know it’s shit. i’ll edit it later. they’re really counting on me to turn out some god-tier poetry - everyone else here is a hardcore math nerd and couldn’t string a verse together to save their life. half don’t even know who emily dickinson is. disgraceful. whatever. just means i have to be the one to commemorate this moment for all humankind, alone, which isn’t a lot of pressure at all and which i’m definitely qualified for just because that stupid book of mine won a prize.
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I don’t mean the sounds. It’s just - all so clean,
airtight,
vacuum-packed and controlled.
So careful.
We with our treadmills, working our legs each day
so we don’t forget what it is to walk
while we float through the star-drenched heavens -
incredible thing,
to land on rock again
and know you’ve returned to a world that flows.
- diary aboard Odysseus I, day 1 of contact
(this is shit. i know it’s shit. i’ll edit it later. they’re really counting on me to turn out some god-tier poetry - everyone else here is a hardcore math nerd and couldn’t string a verse together to save their life. half don’t even know who emily dickinson is. disgraceful. whatever. just means i have to be the one to commemorate this moment for all humankind, alone, which isn’t a lot of pressure at all and which i’m definitely qualified for just because that stupid book of mine won a prize.
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Summary: An astronaut on the Odysseus I spacecraft writes diary entries about the experiences and emotions of...
Review: The diary entries capture the astronaut's sense of wonder, loneliness, and hope as they explore a ne...
Get full Summary and Review on Shopee as low as 0.083!