The Light, the Dark, and the Dust

There’s a little melted snow,

Water in the gutter by

The highway wayside. Passing

Swiftly, you can glimpse the sky

As if it were fixed, the clouds

Flickering one reflection.

A photograph of night skies

Taken through a telescope

Is titled, The Light, the Dark,

And the Dust. For once, the dust

Has nothing to do with Earth.

Electromagnetism,

Electroweak, however

Gravity ties into it,

Skies collapsing, skies tearing

Themselves apart, reflections

In a meltwater puddle

On a wayside, in passing.