the loneliest satellite
fifteen billion miles from home
one eight-track to keep me entertained
and just a simple calculator brain
but I voyage on
sending signals and messages back
not knowing how to return
or where this trip is taking me
but I know—
I carry something of great importance

Mitchell Biggs is a poet based out of the Skagit Valley in Washington State. Growing up near the Salish Sea, he found his creative muses in the natural world, in the DIY music scene and in endless stacks of thrifted paperbacks. His work has been featured in Writer’s Hour Magazine and Dissident Voice.