Welcome to Week 5 of the 2024 Perseid-Brinski Event!
And as promised, here is a sneak peek from JJ Brinski’s book, While the Morning Stars Sang Together. One of my personal favorites… -400°.
-400°
This must be what it is like
on one of those outer ice ball
planets orbiting in the near-dark,
absolutely chilling to the core,
at -400° or some lower,
voided temperature to human
minds. But if this numbed sphere
had a conscience, would
its slow, barely-moving thoughts
rest on a day, long-since
history, where warm
world-spinning hands
fashioned a frozen, dim
thing to rest in hibernation,
awaiting the bright, cresting
dawn of the promise
that all old stars will
be embraced and remember
their names?
From While the Morning Stars Sang Together, by JJ Brinski, 2024. Copyright 2024 by JJ Brinski. Used by permission.
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THANK YOU to everyone who has already sent in a night sky memory! They are so good and I can’t wait to share them here! KEEP THEM COMING, FRIENDS!
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Be a fireball in the dark, friends!
From my heart to yours,
