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M e r e d i t h W e i e r s
D e a t h b e d A s t r o n o m e r
Certain stars blossom
brief, brilliant
auras, then dull
into a black theory.
I learn this
can occur in a single
fall. Collapse,
the ferocious appetite
of gravity, I learn
how brightly
the eyes of the hunted
gleam.
