'Oumuamua

the first to reach out,

cigar shaped interstellar scout,

reach out to the first

interstellar scout; cigar-shaped

on a hyperbolic trajectory. back into deep space,

bombarded, irradiated, reddish-pink space cigar

smoke past I. arriving first messenger from afar,

quickly flyby sunkissed by our stellar star.

interstellar asteroid ‘Oumuamua,

“messenger from afar arriving first”

granted new class designation 1I, tell metallic secrets prime.

birthed out of Lyra long enough for ice to sublime,

add a dash of eccentricity with an earthly glottal stop, okina,

did we take any power in the naming? out of space, out of  time

back into the apex of the sun’s way. –of vega –of trojans and damocloids!

Mualani hula of you in dance motions, arms chant, princess of heavenly sky...

from the past back into the milky cold void, an iceberg,

a rare chunk of hydrogen ice or alien spacecraft.

‘Oumuamua, interstellar asteroid.