270 Million Light Years from Earth

Interacting galaxies IC 1623, seen
from the Webb Space Telescope,
blending together in awesome
translucent interstellar beauty,
seen from a stunning distance
unfathomable 270 million light years
from earth, holding ancient, ancient
mysteries, wonders, and perhaps an
amazing view for some long forgotten
eyes raised to their heavens, seeing
that blending, folding together of
countless stars, worlds unknown,
seen now by other eyes, countless
eons in a future maybe too far
to even dream of.

J. B. Hogan is a poet, fiction writer, and local historian. He has been published in a number of journals including the Blue Lake Review, Crack the Spine, Copperfield Review, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Well Read Magazine, and Aphelion. His twelve books include Bar Harbor, Mexican Skies, Living Behind Time, Losing Cotton, The Apostate and, most recently, Forgotten Fayetteville and Washington County (local history). He lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

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