mare nubium

When we look up at the night sky, what do we see? What surrounds us, and what do we,
in turn, surround with the mists of our aggregate particles?

Photo by Daniel Absi: https://www.pexels.com/photo/close-up-photo-of-black-sand-952670/

mare nubium

expand
____electron shell
____probabilities
contract
____atomic pit
____singularity

inhale
____black hole
exhale
____stardust

sandcastles
____in the sky
erosion
____of solar wind

blastoff
____regolith storm
anthropic
____lunar weather

the universe
____is a cloud
and the moon
____a single drop

by Josh Pearce

Josh Pearce has published more than 200 stories, reviews, and poems in a wide variety of magazines, including Analog, Asimov’s, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Bourbon Penn, Cast of Wonders, Clarkesworld, Diabolical Plots, Kaleidotrope, Locus, Nature, On Spec, Weird Horror, and elsewhere. Find more of his writing at fictionaljosh.com.