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Illustrated Haiku

The Institute’s Interplanetary Poetry Working Group is devoted to calibrating extra-terrestrial reality, which is largely bereft of aesthetically interesting objects. Three of the group’s illustrated haiku will be traveling to outer space (by virtue of winning the EU- Japan NewSpace2060 International Illustrated Haiku competition 2019 Spacebit Prize, ex aequo).

And a little light
Every so slightly lighter
The least glimpse of light

Lines harvested from Johann Valentin Andreae's The Chymical Wedding
A star on her brow
Reflection of the sunset
Undue gravity

Lines harvested from Marcel Proust's Swann's Way
A whitish sunset
The ultraviolet era
That murderous light

Lines harvested from Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics

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