Hyenas and Weasels

Something went bang in the center

Of our own Milky Way around

15 to 20 million years

Ago, right around the same time

Hyenas and weasels emerged.

Is any tribe as dangerous

Lacking a clear leader? Life forms

The demonology of thought

Experiments. Del deport du

Viel antif, Matematico

Sopraordinario, I’m

Not a story—I’m a mess too

Many stories made. You can do

Anything with a narrative

Except make it real. There’s no tale

Outside of tales. Going into

The mountains, one fears it’s not deep

Enough, but the deeper one goes,

The more goblins. East of the pond,

The words dwell alone. Tell no one.

Unnerved by a premonition

Of their demise, the dinner guests

Dispersed and went home to prepare

For the worst. Of course, the storm came.

Nothing exists twice. The wonder

Of education is that it

Does not ruin everyone. Now,

The Pelican Nebula is

Changing. The entire nebula,

Officially designated

IC 5070, is

Divided from the much larger

North American Nebula

By a molecular cloud filled

With dark dust—ordinary dust,

Not dark matter. Something snarls bang.