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Martian Weather

Mary Jo Rabe
Poetry
Science Fiction

If dusty storms could halt their flight
And spin their dizzy pirouettes,
Would Martian surface lose delight
Without the jolt of caustic jets?

Would sand dunes freeze to lonely mounds
And wait for etching wind and dust,
Would Tharsis mountains miss the rounds
Of scratchy winds, of soothing rust?

If underground the Arean slough
Could make the storms resume their breeze,
Would then the pinkish sun cut through
And warm the polar caps with ease?

Do winds adorn the Martian climes,
Or is their touch mere chance, betimes?




                                                                     


 

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Copyright 2008, Mary Jo Rabe. All rights reserved.

Mary Jo grew up on a farm between Miles and Sabula, Iowa. She has a B.A. in German and Math from Michigan State University, an M.A. in Library Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and has been working as a librarian in Freiburg, Germany, for the past 30+ years. She first became a science fiction fan in graduate school in Milwaukee and is a member of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. She is working on a collection of Mars poems. She and her husband live in a small town in the Black Forest.

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