Tycho’s star star of Bethlehem
the red giants the blue
(that person that gets there
would slow would
balance
poise indefinitely
go real, perhaps
the only
ontological proof
green as a garden at last
dumb as a fish in its pools
orange finned arms
spread
luminosities long-period variable
Mirid
(that total alpha
bet we tumble to
beryllium 8 perhaps
the most unstable
but in supernova
the core of the star throws out
carbon oxygen calcium
(going real
no longer an equation for myself
what the blood would have done
go real
by my calculation
the neutron star hammered into heaven
the pulsar that exudes
not light
but nebulae
(if only we were the first to get there
Cygnus Cygnus (signification
when the rest of the expedition
fell into it
they didn’t