Periphery
always, I have stood in the borderlands
looking in from the outside
even on a Monday morning
I am the solitary one that wanders
like Fomalhaut
bright but alone in Piscis Austrinus
locked in the southern sky
won’t you meet me
in the periphery
where my path takes me along the edge
always with the peril of being
pulled in by the gravity
of our conference
or flung out to burn up
in the well of the sun
and maybe also forgotten
choose between dangers
putting everything
all of your gifts, your genius
your inner fire
into this single arc
and letting life consume you
until there is nothing left
or not doing it
By LMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO). Visible light image: the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope ; Acknowledgement: A.C. Boley (University of Florida, Sagan Fellow), M.J. Payne, E.B. Ford, M. Shabran (University of Florida), S. Corder (North American ALMA Science Center, National Radio Astronomy Observatory), and W. Dent (ALMA, Chile), P. Kalas, J. Graham, E. Chiang, E. Kite (University of California, Berkeley), M. Clampin (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), M. Fitzgerald (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), and K. Stapelfeldt and J. Krist (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) - ALMA observes a ring around the bright star Fomalhaut, Public Domain.
