Planet Penance

Cannot imagine

a place where you exist 

and I am 

free 

       to 

             spin. 

You, a Universe. 

A world best kept

by close orbit lap dog,

a locket, house plant,

Resentment like 

an asteroid.

Petition the cosmos

for                   

                [space ]

Cannot imagine  

another existence

besides, blazing.

Combustible comet

And you’re heading 

straight for me.

[And yet]

I close my eyes, 

visualize

Beyond infinity,       imagination:

Light years away,         furthest from 

the    [        ].

 I am icy blue

giant of the unimaginable

vastness.

Scientist wonder if

I am not entirely made

of  frozen ocean water.

Neptune. 

Out here in this 

circumstellar happenstance

my palms

eclipse Kuiper’s belt.

I melt against the galactic island 

of unlikely circumstances.

from arctic to ash,

into nothing 

of nothing, 

primordial.

           [here]

the Sun

does not depend 

on my rotation.

my own resplendent star

a constellation reads:

   to love you

  does not mean

   to burn.