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Iridium

Iridium


Thirty light years away, a stone
old globe of ice and rusting iron
wanders through the ether, losing
elements and direction. On hearing
song is drawn to a turquoise earth
and enchanted by her sea washed voice
and graceful rotation, he orbits
into temporary mental eclipse.

He'd love to plunge into her seas
mix iron with soil, chase chicadees
through tall trees, leap each stream,
strew crystals over the aquamarine.
But gravity would gripe like nanny
to warn of time's stellar repulsion,
preach about Iridium falling and
those poor dinosaurs, not knowing.

He is besotted. She is delicate filmy
fronds, gem stones and pale mist.
He skims her atmosphere- a pebble kiss
before slung shot into space
to another year's oblivion and unseen
dreams of how it never could have been.
Wandering through the ether losing
elements and direction, listening.
By Bob Burn

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