Lawyer

SUAVE self-appointed parliamentarian armed with
BYLAW and point of order and motion;
PASTY, sweaty, and pale when the meeting ends in the
BLINK of an eye.

Bad Jump

HARSH, black space—survey craft appears from jump.
SHORT peace, then crew alarms, sensors blare.
KAPPA may be constant, but tensor here shows local space evilly curved,
SOBERest of questions: far enough from black hole to claw away?

Hopes rising

HARSH winter gales, but now sighting refuge of huts,
LADEN from successful hunt, they
SLYLY calculate the changed
RATIO: hope rising with full bellies, fears declining as hunger recedes.