Watching My Friend Pretend Her Heart Isn't Breaking

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July 17, 2022

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There are many reasons to treat each other
with great tenderness. One is
the sheer miracle that we are here together
on a planet surrounded by dying stars.

- Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer -

Watching My Friend Pretend Her Heart Isn't Breaking

"On Earth, just a teaspoon of neutron star

would weigh six billion tons. Six billion tons.

The equivalent weight of how much railway

it would take to get a third of the way to the sun.

Its the collective weight of every animal

on earth. Times three.

Six billion tons sounds impossible

until I consider how it is to swallow grief--"

Read the rest of Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer's exquisite poem here. { read more }