Strange Attractor

by Rex Plomboste

Each year a circuit round a yellow star,
a pirouette about the poles each day,
and each two million centuries or more
one stately wheelturn of the Milky Way.
 
That cloudy river in the sky, our galaxy,
through million-lightyear tracts of cosmic space
makes journey too, a vast trajectory,
and space itself expands in every place.
 
And while we take our turns through day and night,
and yearly roll around our star the sun —
sharing the Milky Way’s slow-wheeling flight,
sharing the cosmic inspiration —
 
towards what resting place, what destined end,
does our resultant spiral motion tend?

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