Bailly
by Robert Borski
Not just the sweetness
of time
has marred the unbroken
surface, the brightest
smile you will ever see
in any night sky,
but the impact of rock
candy
dissolving
in the deliciously cold
maw
of regolith and milk,
leaving a carie
so large
not even eternity can fill it.
Copyright © 2011, Robert Borski
Image Credit: Mark Kilner, some rights reserved
Robert Borski's poetry appears most often in Star*Line and Strange Horizons. As an eighth grader in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, he was introduced to the night sky via the eyepiece of his neighbor Stephen Walther, who would later found Astronomy magazine.