Heart of Stars
astronomers discover radio signal “heartbeat” from across universe — mit, 13 july 22
a single heartbeat
revealing repeating
billions of light years away
passionate pulsing
the heart’s pounding
is a song carried this far this long
to my eavesdropping
astronomers heard it first
they assert
it’s radio waves
from neutron stars impossibly far
now they’ll grasp how fast
we’re expanding exploding dispersing
disappearing
in a stellar wind
seekers proclaim order
in frequencies sorted
high low above below
they know
what it should mean to me
hearing seeing
cancer radiation being
numbers along waves spectrum
science-deafened heartbeat-lessened
i hear a provocative
rhythm driven
across the universe
echoing seduction
we meld in neutron eruption
radiating our own magnetic waves
another billion years
they will listen with intuition
imagine our passion unfastened
reaching the future
in a resonant
imploding
heartbeat …
it must have stopped by now
it must have stopped