En route to Proxima Centauri

“I wonder if the company of a parrot can make someone a pirate.”

Transmission #38 from Dr. Sam Aslan

Project Abeona has an interesting hook: provide poets a common timeline for a future of space exploration, wrap standard elements around each poem as anchors, then see what happens.

My childhood dream was to be a xenoveterinarian (I got halfway there, but in my day, you couldn’t be an astronaut if you wore glasses), so I wrote my version of (insert muppet voice): Vets In Space!

Please enjoy What Noah Knew in which I imagine the mundane and existential challenges of shepherding animals, two by two, on a journey through the black. Including Olive, the youngest parrot, who will reappear this spring in a forthcoming sister poem from Jupiter’s Eye.