Tilt
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Icons of illustrated cloud and sun
layer to say there will be some
of both, and some percent chance of
anything falling from the sky. By
these symbols I try to guess what’s likely
today, whether we’ll want to walk
a little in the spring dusk, or whether
another storm will come lunging
through the trees and streets, ahead of
another cold front. You are
the brightest the days have been
in a long while. And while
the earth’s oval journey, this boring
orbit around a star, brings two
spheres closer, then farther apart,
something else a long time ago
decided this brief in-between
season: another planet smashing
into this one. Theia. Who knocked
us sideways. Some of her body
still bound up in our moon.
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