Buddies in Celestial Studies

Setting: an observatory
Personae: two cosmologists

Who do you think you are bro, Tycho Brahe?

Well, technically you could say that, I was raised by my uncle!

Smart as*! Anyway, do you have any scruples about using the Hubble image?

Whatever suits you.

I think it looks cool.

If I’m Tycho, then I guess that makes you Anders Vedel – so pardon me, but your kinda cool is questionable.

I may be your tutor, and a few years older than you, but I try to listen, don’t I? I just can’t imagine what else could look better than that nebulae!

You shouldn’t let the confines of exploration limit you, my friend. Let your imagination free you!

I’m perfectly capable and willing to learn a thing or two, but don’t waste my time, kid. This better be good!

See, I’m thinking of taking more of a Kepler type of approach, we’ll need to do a bit more than just observing and actually spend more time analysing. The image is good, and we should still use that, but if we can add our own twist to it, it’ll make for a better presentation. We should just take the raw and turn it into a relevant and useful form! That’s really all there is to magic!

© Heath Muchena, 2015

Saint Somewhere Street

For a moment I suspected your boyfriend knew that I’m the one who really has you.
You didn’t even realise, but you almost held my hand.

I guess we’re really in too deep. My girl’s girlfriend just hit me on the low asking questions. Said she saw us at a mall somewhere, and that her other friend saw us by the beach somewhere.

The way we’ve been moving is sloppy, we’re slipping, and sleeping, and creeping, while the world is watching, and listening, and the walls are looking like they are closing in.

Wish we could just go back to the beginning, but to be honest, we’d probably still end up here. But where do we go from here?

It was perfect because we were always working, you were my getaway, I was your comfort. But our separate lives we were still living.

But if you want to take this, us, somewhere… then I guess I’d have to go there… somewhere… because baby – you’re a hot, sexy, smart, adorable mess, and I’m just recklessly addicted to your caress.

© Heath Muchena, 2015

the Day Moon left May for June

I was always apprehensive, not of the criticism, but the severe opposition the work is bound to arouse, if ever I allow it to be published at this untimely stage.

But then I remembered how Copernicus waited until he was an old man before yielding to his friends’ entreaties to publish, who then sent his book to the press, before the month of May when he finally was able to see a copy and touch it, but could not even read it since he died almost immediately after that.

So I figured if it’s going to kill me, then I’d rather die and leave behind an alright looking corpse.

© Heath Muchena, 2015

NB:
A BIRD OF STONE is now coming sooner than 2019
GABRIEL THE GREAT is now also coming sooner than 2020