Tagged: galaxy

a third-floor window

a third-floor window
off of prince street in soho
on any given

night will reflect nameless balls of
gases, orbiting for some shine
.
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punch in our galactic

punch in our galactic
coordinates, we are here,
then gone, leaving
traces
for stellar
archeologists of
another time
.
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this morning, we learned

this morning, we learned
you were shrinking,
all fourteen-
point-six million square
miles of you, quaking and
leaving deep
scarps as if carving
out a message – for the
850 pounds of moon
rocks we stole
away and called our
greatest legacy –
to return home
.
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recognizing only a splinter

recognizing only a splinter
of a fragment of how
the observable
universe works, i am stuck
wondering if somewhere,
in the constellation
hydra
, someone has
looked out her window
for the last time, a witness
to the collision, ouroboros
.
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a data point or

a data point or
two away from becoming
a pattern, we spark,

glimmer, look for enough sky
to be free of our equations
.
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the science of an

the science of an
entire galaxy is
within each of us –
when your mother called
to say you’ve left
this world,
gravity shifted
.
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with only a hundred

with only a hundred
billion neurons
meeting and
unmeeting within
each galaxy of one
individual, we profess
to knowing where
we are going
when we take
one another’s hand
.
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on antibiotics, i

on antibiotics, i
am a mystery lost in
a galaxy of involuntary
orbits, swinging far
and wide for the
purpose of breaking
down and
healing. don’t
come so close, lest
these drugged molecules
take a swing at you
.
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where there is trauma,

where there is trauma,
the fundamental building
blocks
of galaxies are
knotted, so that
when we look
up, we are reminded
to reflect, to glimmer
.
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