a milky square
of color, Aquamarine—
The Color of the
Universe, determined
by defining the average
shade of 200,000 galaxies.
She is churned up,
borne off-balance
by the electrostatic
blue—so many
stars, pockets
of planets, groups
of moons. All that
space—
The inhabitant
of her abdomen
flickers, a moth darts in
and out of light.
Pixels on the page
collide, her notion
of night, the dark, her
solitude begins to shift.
-Kate Rubick 3/22/05