down through the stars a comet falls
tumbling and turning this way and that
down through the heavens it falls
breaking all speed records of which
are known... a galaxy of transparent
dark matter stands in its way...
down through the energy that holds
the universe together... as one may
cause another to fall and then another
as if it were an avalanche on a
California hillside... light bends
around the comet as it falls, first
red then blue then aa white as one
can imagine before it collides with
the darkness of outer space... we
see it all in our telescope, wondering
if Chicken Little's Sky is really falling
or if it is just an optical illusion that
our eyes are too old to recognize...
but when gravity comes to our rescue
the comet burns up in our atmosphere.
October 24, 2023
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