My Work in….

alien travel agency offers & other poems

by

John J. Dunphy

alien travel agency offers
tours of a dying planet —
Earth

Earth cave paintings
alien tourist points at
an ancestor’s image

a T- Rex!
I quickly readjust
my time travel coordinates

expired passport
I am denied entry to
Mars Colony 6

The Wizard of Oz
our android house servant
bursts into tears
on seeing
the rusted Tin Man

John J. Dunphy
John J. Dunphy is proud of the fact that he is one of scifaiku’s earliest poets. In other words, he’s both talented and old. Published collections of his scifaiku work include Stellar Possibilities, Dark Nebulae and pagan rites. He runs The Second Reading Book Shop in Alton, Illinois, USA.