Noel Sloboda
Life As a Starship Nav System
Left too long in sleep mode,
an electrical spike untangles
carefully-ruled grids
laid over my inherited memories
of everyplace I will have been
and for one moment I float
beyond my metal shell
catch a glimpse of the incandescent
green trail of a sungrazer
headed straight for tomorrow.
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Noel Sloboda is the author of the poetry Collections Our Rarer Monsters (2013) and Shell Games (2008) as well as several chapbooks. His speculative work has recently appeared in Phantom Drift, Star*Line, Kaleidotrope, and Mythic Delirium. He teaches at Penn State York.
