Corona, by Amy Phimister

Starry Night Over the Rhone, by Vincent Van Gogh (Netherlands) 1888

Corona*
 
*the rarefied gaseous envelope of the sun and other stars
 
Time and space          distance
6            feet
 
waiting like a spider
a three toed sloth
 
Waiting             apart
We are our own constellations
 
Out in the cold midnight
The weightlessness of it all

Amy Phimister
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Amy Phimister is a writer who resides in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin.  She is a member of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets and has been published by WFOP, Yardstick Books and The Ekphrastic Review, and was a finalist for the Hal Prize. She has written a children’s book called A-B-C the Animals which will be released by Sand Beach Press in December.