LUCY TIVEN
europa
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"On the 37th orbit, scheduled for Feb. 20, 2018, Juno is to make a suicidal dive into Jupiter,
ending the mission, the same way that the Galileo spacecraft was disposed of in 2003." —Kenneth Chang (The New York Times) |
I keep thinking heroin belongs
to the dream to go your whole life & then fall asleep in the middle of an ocean * on the outskirts of history Juno plunges into radiation a wilderness away from here the violent, diaphanous universe can’t hurt us it’s always part of the plan I keep thinking to cheer & protect the host * you imagine breaking out of a deadlocked orbit of anxiety as a resistance to end a porous gas of calories * the hope of life betrayed into mechanics tears everything apart |
LUCY TIVEN is a poet & journalist living in Los Angeles. Her poems have appeared in Lazy Fascist Review, Hobart, the Scrambler, and elsewhere. She is the author of "Dysplasia" (Finishing Line Press) and "I am not all water" (NAP). She writes about Donald Trump, science, technology, and various other topics at ATTN.com.
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