(x = space)

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weight of glory

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what do we say

sometimes the weight is too much

it presses down like gravity

on a wide planet far away

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is there grace in the stars

the kind that made them,

I suppose

the love that means covalence

molecular intimacy

and from there through our bodies

back to the stars

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c l couch

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photo by Radu Chelariu on Unsplash

when I saw this at first, I thought it was a field of stars

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