Stuart Greenhouse

Voyager to Voyager

What can gravity's lessening tell us
about loneliness 

the sunlight
can’t

            diminishing
more as we move more 

away from each other
become 

what it’s been always:
not

a central
argument

against the emptiness
of night,

            only
a speck among others 

and all that holds us
together

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Stuart Greenhouse lives in New Jersey with his family, writing about astronomy, memory and the distances inherent to chronic illness. Poems have appeared in journals such as Boulevard, Copper Nickel, Fence, Paris Review, Ploughshares, and most recently, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Cumberland River Review, Tri-Quarterly and Poetry Daily.