Text Messages from my Mother: Galaxy-Brain (found poem)
- Jul 28, 2023
- 1 min read
by L. Acadia
We took Chaco for his rabies vaccine a sign at the taco bar catty-corner reads, “save the Earth: it’s the only planet with tacos” appealing immensely to me since I’ve been pondering Black Holes, today I saw a young boy tenderly carrying a 3-ft long plastic T-Rex with a movable jaw, I pondered Dinosaurs’ appeal to kids, feeling powerless, as opposed to guns’ appeal to weak people. I imagine turning kids onto gravity in Black Holes, the universe’s most powerful force. Watching bath water drain could help them visualize Black Holes, how in my lifetime Black Holes went from debatable theory to objects to be photographed at the center of our minds, galaxy… Every one of our fingers and toes has a spiraling galaxy
L. Acadia is a lit professor at National Taiwan University, a dog pillow at home, or otherwise searching Taipei for ghosts and vegan treats. L. has a rhetoric PhD from Berkeley and creative writing forthcoming / in Autostraddle, The Dodge (Best-of-the-Net nominated), Gordon Square Review, New Orleans Review, Strange Horizons, etc.
