I take my responsibility
for these rocky, gassy, charges
seriously, as you can see
but sometimes I yearn to cut my ties
and leave to join the Pleiades,
the bright blue-hot sorority that flees
Orion’s bow.
If it were up to me, I’d go,
but
the
gravitarchy.
Sunspots is published by Penned in the Margins in April 2015.