Tagged: stars
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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between contractual
between contractual
hellos with the sun, the moon,
and stars are lapses
only documented here,
here, and there, marked by Xes
.
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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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on the nth day of
on the nth day of
summer, we made a few
more discoveries,
hand in hand, arms
swinging towards
home, luck in our
steps. a new
Hedera helix hanging
planter finds its rhythm
alongside us, ready
to climb towards
the stars at our window
.
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the day after, all
the day after, all
signs continue to point to
each other – we are
over the moon, tiptoeing
our happiness around stars
.
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when i heard today
when i heard today
that NASA had discovered
a new solar system with seven
earth-like planets, i sighed
thank god as if i were
closer to getting off
this one. other lures:
the system’s star
is an ultracool
dwarf named TRAPPIST-1,
no abrahamic relations, and
cosmically speaking,
40 light years away
is only right next door
.
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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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out of courtesy,
out of courtesy,
we are one another’s textbook
spiral galaxies,
lit with intrinsic structure,
not wholly predictable
.
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outside our solar
the heart often
the heart often
lingers dutifully
in orbit,
breaks off
pieces of
memory when
hungry, stays
close to avoid
missing
any shooting stars
.
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