Friday 22 January 2016

The Fibersphere ...../- 12:

/- 12:

Then I wake to see
the shafts of dawn cut through the trees...but... I feel a tickle first
on my arm and then I see
nestled up to me
was a 9' Giga-pede!
millepedes enormously endowed
and quite unshy
It must have found me through the night
and chose to sleep beside.


"Dude, I think your cool
but could we go a little slow?
I'm already waking up to you
and your name I still dont know!"
I say in silence to myself,
frozen still in shock,
not wanting to startle him
or somehow piss him off
I think he is asleep
(him or her, who can say?)
and steathily I carefully
slide silently away
and breathing with relief
my pace, as quickly as I dare,
accelerates enough to generate
some noisy air
which awakes my giant insect,
nonetheless I couldn't wait,
Insecta-phobic urges killed my will to hesitate
Even though I knew a hot persuit would soon ensue
I couldn't get my stealth mode to comply (as fear will do) 

Because you know these puppies are some longer than a car
And if they rear up on their hinds
They're taller than you are!
And yes we have the edge a bit on running straight flat-out
But he has home advantage,
I am running on his ground!
I'm running now full-tilt
and improvise some tree par cor
and pick the paths my persuer is not greatly suited for, 

like ditches, trees, cliffs,
and leaves that cover sink hole traps { :) ! }
thankfully I see it first
and jump just clear of that...
he couldn't clear the hole,
and that's all there was to that,


"Kersplat. hee hee ha ha ho ho
kerspat le Giga-Pede
All he would've done is just complain about the weed.
Best we rid of him, as less we'll hear of him complain. 

And anyway, mon fleur, that's more for us that will remain.
excerpt from Jettison the Sane, 3059



I narrowly myself avoid
buggy's sink-hole fall
By swinging out less wide, (but so quickly changing mind)
And nearly timing it all wrong
to gather up more speed
I saved my life unknowingly
as that hole was very deep.
So here's sincerest toast:
"to second chances in the dawn
Without exaggeration, my life, to them I owe it on" 

Friday 15 January 2016

The Fibersphere..... ./- 11:

/- 11:

I start from slumber under stars and hidden in the grass
the moonless dark eternity
is lulling moments past.

One time, when gazing at the stars, 
bird sillouttes I find
that cut across the foreground
with strobing stars behind.

They maintained an echelon 
as they crossed the sky, 
keeping tight in their formation,  
symmetrical and dignified.
I cannot recall precisely,
nor accurate describe
nor forget the beauty seen
among the birds that night.


~~ ~~ ~~


like warm milk and honey, 

the tonic of that memory
soon has found me drifting back
my prior dream returning fast.....

We thought that our precession
made a glacial age the norm  

every hundred thousand years or so
with 10 thousand felt warm
we knew what rocks could tell us
but we didn't know what's next
And the sun wasn't behaving
like predicted from the best.
That brings me to the year....
which one are we in now?
"well my son, I'm glad you asked!
I would've told you anyhow"  

I say to passing mirror,
only this one's in my dream
"We think it's somewhere
thereabout 3483
Or that's what the simulators
recon it to be
among the many sources
there are some descrepencies
and that is why the date
remains a partial mystery. 

The warmer air returned
after near 400 times
Our orbit 'round the sun,
then fate to us was kind...
For magma far below now
thru volcanoes sought escape 

Which carbonized the air
And the cold would soon abate 

And the ice began it's dance 
Toward the poles, more every year 
But records incontinous
within the time between 
humanity would live below
the ground, it mostly seemed
or close to the equator,
they resurfaced for awhile
But not for very long
could now the surface they defile 

As very soon they knew again 
they must escape below
as sulphuric acid rain
made it's appearance known 

Volcanic ash and dust and gas 
we thought would melt the ice 
and melt it did, but not quite
as fast as we would like.
Finally it's back to where it was some time ago

Again we have 4 seasons: 
summer rain and winter snow    

 to be continued....