“Meteor Shower” by Clint Smith
Subject
- English & Language Arts
Language
English — USUpdated
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I read somewhere that meteor showers
are almost always named after
the constellations from which
they originate. It’s funny, I think,
how even the universe is telling us
that we can never get too far
from the place that created us.
How there is always a streak of our past
trailing closely behind us
like a smattering of obstinate
1
memories.
Even when we enter a new atmosphere,
become subsumed
2
in flames, turn to dust,
lose ourselves in the wind, and scatter
the surface of all that rests beneath us,
we bring a part of where we are from
to every place we go.
Credit Line: “Meteor Shower” from Counting Descent by Clint Smith. Copyright © 2016 by Clint Smith. Used with permission by Write Bloody Publishing.
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Facing History & Ourselves, ““Meteor Shower” by Clint Smith”, last updated July 26, 2024.
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