Second Day of Yule-Tide 2020

 

On the second day of Yule-tide my true love gave to me, two microscopes

To go in my science laboratory,

 

In the dark of Enceladus’ ocean

The warmth from hydrothermal vents

Wraps around the citizens of the ocean

And on a towering autotroph

Of branched ribbons

Waving in the current

Anchored to the stone

The citizens of Enceladus hung globes

Filled with phosphorescence

That the gleaming ribbons were outlined

With pale blue-green light

Undulating in the eternal night

Of the ocean’s depths.

Tani smiled as she watched the festive lights dance

From where she floated arm in arm with her true love

Light was rare and precious in the here-below

And the photons filled her soul

Even as they scattered off into the water.

Later in the day Tani was once again led to her lab

Her lab!

And there on a central lab bench

Were two microscopes

One for large objects

And one for thin slices

That she might examine life as it was on Enceladus

In the hopes of understanding

What life might be like in the great-beyond

She turned on the microscopes

And red light filled the lab with cheer

As if two Red Dwarfs

In binary orbit

In the dark of space

Had ignited.