Look out, Ophiuchus, Voyager’s near!
Earth has randomly shot some gold your way.
We hope our sounds and music suit your ear
and you’ll get back to us without delay.
The complete instructions are included
for how to hook it up to get your tunes.
Note that, if depiction seems deluded,
we tried to use the simplest of runes.
We showed ourselves as naked, but, in fact,
much of the time, we really do wear clothes,
and we omitted fingernails, for tact,
since claws convey predation, we supposed.
We want to hear from someone, which is why
We’ve shot this out to any passerby.
James Ph. Kotsybar, first poet published to another planet, has verse currently orbiting Mars, aboard NASA’s MAVEN, in Hubble Space Telescope’s Mission Log, and awarded and featured at NASA’s Centaur’s 50th Anniversary Art Challenge. He’s published in six countries and honored by State Poetry Society of Michigan and Balticon Competitions. He read before French Troubadours at EuroScience Open Forum. He once sang William Blake’s poetry at Santa Barbara's Victoria Hall Theater under Allen Ginsberg’s direction.
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