Aliens We Were

We were launched in a time

of supernatural splendor.

We traveled distances

measured in light.

We were new invaders.

We didn’t bear much resemblance

to fin, feather, fauna.

We were disturbingly different forms,

plodding and somber,

otherworldly,

alien.

We were:

figures emerging from wombs,

figures dissolving into dust.

And after all the ages,

we became imaginary forms,

in some ways amorphous,

while this sphere still rolled,

this sphere we tried to call home.

Linda Imbler

BIO: Linda Imbler’s poetry collections include seven published paperbacks: Big Questions, Little Sleep First Edition, Big Questions, Little Sleep Second Edition; Lost and Found; Red Is the Sunrise; Bus Lights; Travel Sight; Spica’s Frequency; Doubt and Truth; and, A Mad Dance. Soma Publishing has published her four e-book collections, The Sea’s Secret Song; Pairings, a hybrid of short fiction and poetry; That Fifth Element; and Per Quindecim. Examples of Linda’s poetry and a listing of publications can be found at lindaspoetryblog.blogspot.com