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Xenotheology II

by F. J. Bergmann

Xenotheology II

On that planet, they had learned

to distrust their omens. Miracles

hung in the sky and manifested 

from the land and seas around

them daily, but they all kept to 

themselves and their appointed

tasks as if they were stone-blind

and deaf, even though our sensors

easily detected their racing pulses,

penetrated their masked temblors.

When our glittering ship floated

low over what had been the glory

of their capital city, our stardrive

harmonics chiming from its fused 

ruins, not one of them looked up.

F.J. Bergmann frequently lives in Wisconsin, and is the shadowy entity behind fibitz.com. Although lacking in academic literary qualifications, she is kind to those so afflicted. Constellation of the Dragonfly (Plan B Press, 2008) is her third chapbook.