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Cosmos

Nursing, I am a galaxy—a grace
of milky stars rivering
through my breasts

toward the risen moon
of my baby’s mouth. They have found
their night-sky in the perfection
of his hunger.

There is no vaster universe
than this.

Rose Meyer


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