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6 PLATONIC ASTRONOMY I focus the home-built refractor. Thought concentrates, its angle infinitely acute the energy-density absolute. Mind aches with the radiant hope that sharpens toward a star lending sequence to this before, as if all time had come from this pure precedent. And now I have it, Vega’s blue-white dot trembling in the eyepiece like a flake of space ice. These lenses focus the beam, collapsing a crossing of time into this instant. I feel mind and sky correspond. An inner light turned outward that I fleetingly catch lets mind and image match. I think of space compressed to a point the star in my eyepiece like sex the idea like physical climax. Sight of it dawns like a music. The beauty of light its slight weight moving through as the material moment of thought measures a distance from the origin point into the grace of existence. ...

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