XLI.

(are we back?
i remember what you did.
are we back —)

this is a story of the past three days and a past nine months.

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there's a child of outer space walking around among us.
he comes from as far as andromeda.
we don't know whether he prefers it there or here.

isaac and i, with universe blood, look at each other and wonder.

it's happened before, but those satellites have collapsed for lack of oxygen.
(you're all my lungs need.)
so it's us among the new generation, and my brother as far as the orbiting planets.

we drive around and wonder from the jeep windows.
isaac says he'll be the best one.
i wonder if the protostar and the white dwarf have anything in common.

but he is blueshifting.
i catch glimpses and opinions of him on the tides of the northern lights.
and it's all i know.

you're the wonder in the wild.