An Astronomer Drives His Wife Home

Will Hiltz

she had mixed Scotch and wine

and was going to be sick, crying already

with shame as he pulled off the road

and helped her bend down

 

the familiar stars overhead were mute

they would not speak tonight of infinities,

beginnings and ends, singularities, Einsteinian

ultimate whys and whens

 

mere dots of light 

more silent than the void they burned in

no match for the sobs and retchings at his feet

and a dog barking somewhere

 

distant

  • Author: Will Hiltz (Offline Offline)
  • Published: February 22nd, 2017 02:46
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  • Tony36

    Great write

    • Will Hiltz

      Thanks, Tony36.

      • Tony36

        Welcome

      • MendedFences27

        Beautiful poem. Great images, great musings, man is so inconsequential to the infinite scope of the universe. Yet you keep us grounded in your poem with the little images like "a dog barking. " Well done. - Phil A.

        • Will Hiltz

          Thanks for your kind words about the writing, Phil. Glad you liked it.

          Will



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