
A Winter of Extinction
Greying mists once blocked out the sun, clouds of copper casting frosty shadows across cloaked and ancient skies.
Nov 19, 2021
Sam is a Professor in Creative Pedagogies. His research is concerned with trying to engage and empower people with science, especially those from under-served communities. He writes science poems to try and communicate some of the beautiful and important scientific research that is being done on a daily basis, all across the world.

Greying mists once blocked out the sun, clouds of copper casting frosty shadows across cloaked and ancient skies.
Nov 19, 2021

Drifting into pseudo space, you count imaginary miles falling past your vessel in their artificial multitudes.
Nov 12, 2021

Dawn breaks over the diminishing sound of forced retreat. A chorus constrained by the bare and callow noise that permeates our bandwidth.
Nov 5, 2021

I don’t have more free time. I have felt burnt out, compelled to refrain from complaining about doing schoolwork, about loss of income, about living alone, about how to process change.
Oct 29, 2021

With season’s end you topple to the ground, aching, broken limbs held aloft by briny hands that bare you proudly to their sunken home.
Oct 22, 2021

Flecks of gold and red shimmer over restless seas. Incandescent gatherings illuminating the horizon as you throw yourself to the mercies of the wind.
Oct 8, 2021

Muddied bricks andmelted sheets of bronzedisclose therevelation ofyour erasure.Between molten potsand shattered bonesa flash of heatscars the earth,fractured…
Oct 1, 2021

Your crumbling steps rise to greet the sun, towering overhead like monolithic icebergs that betray their craggy depths.
Sep 24, 2021

The Earth tries to sleep, casting off the shadows of a distant star beneath the tattered veil of greying night.
Sep 17, 2021

The scars of past assaultslie scattered on the shore.The force of every blowetched into the earthwith the relentlessnessof your approach;ancillary…
Sep 10, 2021

Cascading carelessly past weathered ore you slither into view against the levee’s edge.
Sep 3, 2021

Flitting between skyscapes the distant strains of multitudes flicker in the air.
Aug 27, 2021

Bumbling in the breeze, your banded body drifts casually into view. Flower waker, pollinator.
Aug 20, 2021

Buoyant skies linger overhead, bulging at the seams with surging intent; capricious threats that fall indiscriminately against the statistical fortitude of our modelled routines.
Aug 13, 2021