Thursday, December 11, 2014

Thoughts on a dead astronomer...

Did her fever-ravaged middle years
Prevent her from a doting husband
And a sticky child
Or did she love like me,
Only quietly, hidden, 
a seed buried In a grape,
Her map hidden by daylight.
I am impressed with her name
And her ability to read the 
Naked face of stars.

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