Panspermia
Originally published in Garfield Lake Review.
Neil deGrasse Tyson explained to me
in a ten minute youtube video that I watched
while hanging up the wet socks I did not have
enough quarters to dry, that all that is me
can be reduced down to the bacteria
found on the surface of rocks
from other planets.
This is called panspermia.
And now all space voyages
make perfect sense
for every great story
is someone lost trying
to get back home.
Now leaving is synonymous
with staying and when you walked out
last night with your hair undone
you were actually walking closer
to my heart and the sound of the door closing
is the sound of your breathing
on my shoulder and the rain
like noise your lips made upon
my neck.