THE CORE

In fifty million years or so our solar system's orbit

will take it far above the plane of the galaxy

and some eyes strange to us will see the core

of the Milky Way rising, unhidden by dust,

to the night skies, ablaze. If those gazing

eyes claim kinship, we are still long gone,

deep in the tectonic plates taking

their own downward plunge

into the mantle.

01.04.2024

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