Jewel Box Stars
- Jewel Box Stars
"Things born on the ground… generally begin and end their lives on the same day"
—Johannes Kepler, Somnium
In casket,star array
ranged from bone-blueto womb in intensity.
Intimate orbit,shiver your globe
unswollen. Thinkinghow inside.
Begin on a Tuesday.A masked daemon pushes
you to the moon, a journeyof four sedated hours.
Like the witch's whelp,you picture a smothering
or a celestial collision.Stop thinking
son. The procedureonly ten minutes.
Count your various gravities. [End Page 188]
heather hughes hangs her heart in her current town of Somerville and her native Miami. Her poems appear in The Adroit Journal, Barrow Street, decomP, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, Sidereal Magazine, and Vinyl, among others. She works as an Associate Editor at Harvard University Press and as nonresident letterpress tutor at the Bow & Arrow Press. She can also be found writing for Mass Poetry online and serving as an editorial associate for Scoundrel Time. Find writing and letterpress prints online at www.birdmaddgirl.com.
