Stranger in a Strange Land
(41° N 9.5° W)

I look out across the Cydonia Plain,

Where mountains scatter beneath red skies

To face the millennia with crumbled majesty,

And the wind blown dust, with weathered persistence.

 

My imagination seeds cities where deserts stand,

Torrential rains where dioxide grows,

A monument there to ancient Martians,

A marker here for our tenuous settlement

That raises domes across the sands of Mars.

 

Come Join Us.

© Copyright 1997 Lisa Jain Thompson
Illustration ©1997 Ken Fair 

 

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