The First Martians II: A Song of Mars
Free Verse — It’s Complicated: Lit Up & TWC Contest
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3 min readMar 11, 2019
Bride:
Look at us, who has
Seen a stranger couple? How can we be?
Areology long past even the memory of fire
Now flushing at the twinge of heat deep.
You, strange carriage, an amalgam of man and machine,
And filled with the stories of too many creators.
How can we be? Who has given us this gift?
