Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Charlotte's intro poem

Planet Nine


Even Neptune is too close.

The noise the stars don’t make
wakes me in the night. I turn to look  

at who isn’t following, my spine prickling.

Could I love you?

Circling in the fathomless, icy dark—

 distant eccentric perturber.

Look down. You’re the echo in the cave,
    the bottomless fissure in the rock.

Stalker, recluse, bully, black sheep,

jealous of even fist-sized spheres:

cloudy-blue blown-glass paperweight,
bruised clementine,


softening in its dimpled skin.

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