248 Years

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Christopher Hivner

 

 

 

I can see past Neptune

with eyes that want absolution,

but in the

dark cylinder of space

Pluto stares back,

a grim countenance

offering no balm

before turning on its axis

to leave me behind.

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          Christopher Hivner is a lifelong resident of Pennsylvania in the United States. He has recently been published in The Horror Zine and Illumen. His book of horror/dark fantasy poems, Dark Oceans of Divinity, is available from Cyberwit.net or Amazon.