LUCY TIVEN
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europa

"On the 37th orbit, scheduled for Feb. 20, 2018, Juno is to make a suicidal dive into Jupiter,
ending the mission, the same way that the Galileo spacecraft was disposed of in 2003."
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—Kenneth Chang (The New York Times)
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I keep thinking heroin belongs
to the dream to go your whole life
& then fall asleep

in the middle of an ocean

*

on the outskirts of history
Juno plunges into radiation
a wilderness away from here
the violent, diaphanous
universe can’t hurt us
it’s always part
of the plan I keep thinking
to cheer & protect the host

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you imagine breaking out
of a deadlocked orbit
of anxiety as a
resistance to end
a porous gas
of calories

*

the hope of life
betrayed into mechanics
tears everything apart

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LUCY TIVEN is a poet & journalist living in Los Angeles. Her poems have appeared in Lazy Fascist Review, Hobart, the Scrambler, and elsewhere. She is the author of "Dysplasia" (Finishing Line Press) and "I am not all water" (NAP). She writes about Donald Trump, science, technology, and various other topics at ATTN.com.