it's the space between which explodes

Here's some Michael Symmons Roberts verse, as taken from the pictured 2016 Selected Poems:


Cosmology

Hold tight, for the world
is at full tilt tonight,
clocks cannot keep pace.

Solar systems scream asunder,
star clouds are a powder blast
of ancient light.

Hold fast to me, because
the universe is one long
shrapnel burst, out and away

from the heart. Up there,
the only contacts are collisions
of stars as they fly apart.

Or maybe stars are still,
lie us, and it's the space
between them which explodes.

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Michael Symmons Roberts (1963 - )

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