Clips of the Horizon
On January 1, 2019 the New Horizons spacecraft executed a flyby of Kuiper Belt object (KBO), 2014 MU69 (Ultima Thule).
1.
Ultima Thule: it’s a rock.
No good for skipping.
Not a Sagan cross
placed to get us supposing
perhaps Divinity
willed the blink of arriving.
No, just an oblong ruddy
guitar case with swells
wobbling its uneventful way
down the Kuiper Belt.
It’s hidden strings had no
chance to strum or melt
out notes resonant to
the music of those spheres