Margaret Ray: Transmission Received from Penelope in Deep Space


We’ve been [              ] long enough
for my hair to grow past my shoulders.

[           ] pushed off without thinking, of course
[           ] no choice.  Survival

at the cost of [                                     ]
[           ].  We’re a message in a bottle now, 

and it looks like the Sci-Fi channel promised
it would, only dirtier [               ] ship.  Everyone

[   ] top of each other.   The light is so thin, but
we  [                ] .  Outside [                ] bubble

of radio waves [          ] human voices
from our [                    ], so much silence. 

I know [                      ] gone, but my body is still
in love.  [                                 ] wander [        ].

The word day no longer means anything.
but I remember so much.  [                 ].

The sound of insects. [            ] pull
of the earth [     ] my body, like a magnet. 

Wind.  How I tried to keep even a soft rain
from wetting my skin. [                      ].

                            .

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