Bradley Earle Hoge
K2-18 b
On K2-18b, words fall
from the sky like cosmic rays.
All you have to do to hear
ancestral voices
is tune to the right frequency.
Once found, they emerge
like bugs when lights
are effulgent. Though, it is still
nearly impossible to grok
translation. To hold
them in your hands
for your children to see—
like lightening bugs. Afraid
to open fist too much lest
the words escape and scurry
back into the dark.
Bio
Bradley Earle Hoge's poetry appears in numerous anthologies and journals, most recently in Red Planet, Courtship of the Winds, and upcoming in Fault Zone: Reverse. His book Nebular Hypothesis was published by Cawing Crow Press in 2016. He has also published four chapbooks and was the Managing Editor for Dark Matter Journal. He has been a teacher, a children's museum curator, a college professor, and a vagabond. He currently teaches science at the Nueva Middle School in Hillsborough California.