How wonderful it would be to catch just a pinch of stardust on a rooftop in Oslo, Paris or Berlin: a handful of micrometeorites, traces of ancient cosmic dust, falling through the atmosphere, merging with terrestrial grime and rust, tiny flakes of matter from the start of our Solar System – and wish on it. […]
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We Are Stardust
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Writing Prompt #165 “Collage 26” Life is full of shaggy dog stories, Like the ones told by drifters As you walk along the railway track Or the yarn the baby-sitter Spun about a haunted shack. That summer in the lonely garden With the ocean’s breathy chill, You were visited by a […]
Releasing Stardust
My response to Carpe Diem Special #200 Basho’s disciples: Ransetsu’s “against the blue” branches of tall trees tear holes in night’s canopy releasing stardust © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.bibliotecapleyades.net