by David Feela
isn’t ours
but what if
as our InSight
touched down,
shaking pink dust
off its gadgets
a robot camera
whirred and clicked
to photograph
the horrified face
of a dodo—
the same bird
we never suspected
could survive
an interplanetary
migratory escape
from a feckless
flightless human race.
David Feela writes a monthly column for The Four Corners Free Press and for The Durango Telegraph. A poetry chapbook, Thought Experiments, won the Southwest Poet Series. The Home Atlas appeared in 2009. A Collection of his essays, How Delicate These Arches, was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. Unsolicited Press will release his new chapbook, Little Acres, in April 2019.