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Apple Valley, Mars

Peter Layton

On Mars they enjoy clay oceans
nothing moves
light particle silica sand
in an emulsion of
continent wide sand storms
viewable from space
where three hundred miles per hour winds
would be barely discernible to earth astronauts
feeling little different from a soft zephyr
summering past on earth, the cold however
would be grasped as real
colder than our coldest polar winters
no air
sand hills with compositions like
a bleached iron mix
and the bombardment
of constant radiation from the sun
it’s be difficult to conjure a less
hospitable place
for earth loving creatures
of which many now training their eyes skyward
can cannot wait.

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