The Newest Moons of Dirt and Rome
An electrified trash-can floating above Saturn
just detected two new bodies draped in ether,
unseen during the whole burnt span of human
history, from caves to ziggurats to skyscrapers.
Dwarf-shade of brooding orbs shelled in ice,
fading in the witch-glow of the double suns
but this is all that we could have hoped for—
unnamed twins dodging the spittle of comets.
And you and I, who could not even pay our
taxes or mark our own ballots without doubt
will sleep with such virtue tonight, tumbling
with breakneck grace through the frigid wastes
like the tangled curls of prehistoric maidens,
lying where nothing has been built or dreamt
by Michael Meyerhofer
from: Astropoetica; Vol. 7.1; Spring 2009