“NASA’s Kepler Spacecraft Discovers New Batch of Earthlike Planets”
—National Geographic
Hard to contain my relief—
I hope one is like our Earth
but devoid of human-like creatures
Only weather
plants
and birds that eat them
I imagine falling asleep
among the flora
and not waking up
not even when it rains
Timothy Otte’s work has appeared in or is forthcoming from SAND Journal, the minnesota review, Paper Darts, and elsewhere. He is a 2014-15 Loft Mentor Series winner and is currently at work on his first book. He is from and lives in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, but he keeps a home on the internet: www.timothyotte.com