dressed in pink

i1/2017 first (observed )
interstellar object, One
Containing no water or ice
800 x 80 meters hurtling (10/1)
at 186,000 miles per hour
relative to Sol
( Light speed 
186,00 miles per second )

Their hyperbolic course
insures no capture
intuitive understanding 
often contradicts 
mathematical reality

They (singular) leaves our system
20 degrees above the plane 
in which Terra 
orbits Sol
(Fingers plus toes)
Winging away towards Pegasus
50 light years away
(base 10)

Oumuamua’s acceleration 
results of outgassing (possibly)
not visible in the optical spectrum, 
but accelerating 
and not by gravitational forces
Alone (singular)

Observations revealed them
to be
tumbling, rather than 
spinning smoothly, 
indicating they may have,
like so many,
    experienced a violent past.

Reddish (pink) surface 
of this oblong non-throbbing
spear 
Attributed to 200 million years 
of cosmic interstellar radiation
on nitrogen ice
No relationship to 
Mars’ aggressive hue

The nerve of their trajectory 
from star
Vega
They has strummed
the constellation 
Lyra
Could not has been there
If they left that system,
at their (singular)
apparent velocity 
300,000 years ago

Oumuamua’s characteristics
might just indicate 
Alone (singular)
They’re not a natural object.
Not a neutral object 
Most certainly asexual 

mysteries await  
in the great cosmic ocean

Is she even a poem?

10/20/2023 – SGL Brunswick, ME