Stellar Sex and Solitude
Mark D. Stucky
“Stellar Sex and Solitude” humorously imagines cosmology as a passionate love affair, lonely estrangement, and jealous revenge.
Big Bang’s primordial orgasm
spawned all things universal.
Burning plasma seared molecular souls
until fully satiating quantum lust.
After expanding across millions of millennia,
loneliness became cosmically comprehensive
when immense distances lay
between solitary stars.
From monogamous orbits,
faithful planets never strayed,
hurtling through space in chaste harmony
with far-flung planetary neighbors.
But icy-hearted comets,
in cold stellar wastelands,
yearned for jealous vengeance
upon warmer climates,
triggering fly-by extinctions
of prehistoric life on earth.
Mark D. Stucky
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Mark Stucky, a science geek all his life, has had one book and nearly two hundred articles, stories, and poems published on a multitude of topics, including cinema, communications, spirituality, and science fiction. He has received four dozen writing and publication awards. Mark believes in following facts and faith, understanding other perspectives, and saving the world (or at least trying to). For more of his writings, see cinemaspirit.info. For more about him, see linkedin.com/in/markstucky.