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mura hachibu              

Death or dishonour. An easy choice away from the deck’s disorder or glass-smooth water. The lifeboat had spaces left, no-one stopped me. On moonless nights, I still hear their screams from the star-scattered ocean, feel your judgement in dawn shadows.     

 

second class

third class                                                                                                

death

Rocket Launch

Frank

By Jupiter’s rings, I watch you drift away into the darkness of death, gradually becoming smaller in the capsule window in your orange space suit. Who knows where you’ll be in a thousand years?  

 

vacuum

loneliness

is for the living

Tim Gardiner.jpeg

Dr. Tim Gardiner is an ecologist, editor, essayist, poet, and children’s author from Manningtree in Essex, UK. He has been widely published in poetry journals and anthologies. He is a former co-editor of the tanka prose section of Haibun Today and now edits a poetry column for the punk fanzine Suspect Device.

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