Astropoetica: Meeting, by Poppy Hullings

Meeting

by Poppy Hullings

I am of little passing consequence
against the magnitude of spanless space
and ageless earth. But I am known tonight.
I walk abroad and lift up my chin,
and there, from out of the darkness, streaming down,
it finds me. Light spills deep and wide,
leaving its home before my earth began.
Behold, I am discovered by a star.

Poppy Hullings lives in rural Mississippi with her husband and eleven-year-old daughter. Her poetry has appeared in KotaPress, Skyline Magazine, Shadows Ink Series, SaucyVox(Dot)Com and Poetic Voices. Her first poetry collection, Reflecting in Words, was published by Shadow Poetry in 2003.

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Atlas Image obtained as part of the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation.