(In)sight

I wrote this this morning after seeing a news report and photograph of distant galaxies.

(In)sight

With telescopes
and satellites
and computers,
we strain
to glimpse
billion-year-old
starlight
while failing
to gaze
in wonder
at a leaf,
a pebble,
an eye.

Author: Joanne Corey

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