24 Space poems

two oblong lobes of rough ice methane and ammonia fallen far below the Kuiper Belt perturbed by Jupiter into nearer perihelion where they warm the coma sublimes the tail blurs a trim probe relays images from the twilit surface as gray and vacant as sleep this small craft a little boat a dim soul in an afterlife in attenuate gravity in stifling quiet in the Tuat to be weighed against the truth Thoth and Anubis at the Scales

A black hole is a thing so massive that not even light escapes i understand this i have things like that inside me ideas that don't come out no matter how much light there is

The first images from the webb telescope i cried which surprised me but there it was galaxies from 13 billion years ago pixels on a screen and me in my living room crying

Most of the universe is something we can't see or measure we know it's there by what it pulls toward itself i think about the things that pull at me that i can't see