The Poetry Bus: Mine, Yours, Everybody's!

I chose the Matreyek piece for mine, and the first time I saw it I thought, during the 'island' section, of the Inuit myth of Sedna, and thus to that first known member of the Oort Cloud, 90377 Sedna. Which sounds like a celestial object with its own postcode.

Sedna

There an object, a very large object.
It is the coldest, most distant place
known in the solar system.
So says its discoverer,
the prosaic Mike Brown.
He named it Sedna, because Sedna
is thought to live at the bottom
of the frigid Arctic Ocean.

Sedna is a sea-goddess.
Sedna is trans-Neptunian.
We need more astronomical mythologies.
Perihelion, aphelion;
I have the figures.

Sedna was an Inuit maid;
loved to look at herself,
combed her hair,
her long, dark hair,
wanted no man.
Her reward a raven husband
who fed her raw fish,
her rescue blown, father hacking
frozen fingers off
to form seals,
frozen hands off
to make whales.
Sedna sank and no longer
combs her hair.

If Sedna formed in its current location
the Sun’s original protoplanetary disc
must have extended
as far as…

This is important,
as from current orbit
a perturbing body
must have been involved.

Sedna still has no hands.
Hunters cannot stop her storms,
but may appease her.
Sedna is classified
as a scattered object.
A scattered, shining, object.


And here are all the links to the passengers extraordinaire!

A sensory feast from Dave, here: http://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2010/12/essence-of-me-on-poetry-bus-and-haiku.html

And a triptych, really, from Rachel, plus a bonus singing bear. And moon...
http://crowd-pleasers.blogspot.com/2010/12/titus-bus-and-little-dog-jumped-over.html

Now the essence of Helen, here (haiku alert for TFE):
http://woonietest.blogspot.com/2010/12/beware-dog-driving-bus.html

Niamh is Hands Free here:
http://variouscushions.blogspot.com/2010/12/on-tituss-poetry-bus.html

And the moody, cough medicine addict (hmm, sound like any Coleridge you know) the Watercats is here. Or is that an are?:
http://thewatercats.blogspot.com/2010/12/poetry-bus-with-titus.html

Jinksy is star-gazing, here:
http://pens-poems.blogspot.com/2010/12/heavens.html

You can take a tour with, and of, The Bug, here:
http://danabugseyeview.blogspot.com/2010/12/poetry-bus-gone-to-dogs.html

And Kat is distilled, here:
http://hyggedigter.blogspot.com/2010/12/poetry-bus-my-essence.html

Meanwhile, izzy is writing the world, here:
http://izzy-conversing.blogspot.com/2010/12/poetry-bus-121210.html

Great Gaia! Our leader Himself is here:
http://totalfeckineejit.blogspot.com/2010/12/titus-dogs-at-wheel-of-poetry.html

Wow! Carolina Linthead (crazy name! crazy guy!) who, quite bizarrely, is married to someone who looks exactly like The Bug. And he has the evidence, here: http://childofafrostymorning.blogspot.com/2010/12/christmas-tradition_12.html

And a beautiful pressed poem from Dick, here: http://patteran.typepad.com/patteran_pages/

A kaleidoscope of 120 Socks, here:
http://120socks.blogspot.com/2010/12/poetry-bus-poem-essence.html

And though she may have been buffaloed, and is huffing and puffing, how can there not be room for the wonder that is Enchanted Oak? Here:
http://chrisalba-enchantedoak.blogspot.com/2010/12/recipe-calls-for-rainbows-elephants-and.html

And now we're off-road with Cad! Here;
http://atrellisfencing.blogspot.com/2010/12/beep-beep.html

The Prof has graced us with three transformational pieces - Jeanne Iris, here:
http://revolutionaryrevelry.blogspot.com/2010/12/poetry-bus-three-entries.html

And driving dogs and awesome poets had better watch out for Ada! Here:
http://pointsmeanprizes.blogspot.com/2010/12/poetry-bus-13th-december.html

Ooh! Just in! Some concrete love from Dominic. I think...
http://dominicrivron.blogspot.com/2010/12/essence-vessel.html

Hooray! Our money's safe, the swiss are here. Here:
http://travelsinthefloatingelvis.blogspot.com/2010/12/essence-vessels.html