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Refulgent
Out beyond where your light reaches, there is
Other light. Different. Not solar. It has
No heat. It has no speed. It pools. You fly
Through and it clings to your ship, then it drips
Away. Dazzling as it falls. There was
A planet it would land on, and the sky
Above it became full. Brilliance spread from
That sky to another, then another,
Like candles lit in a row, so now whole
Galaxies glimmer and glow. A welcome
Sight in a mostly dark universe where
Space doesn’t necessarily unfold
Around a center sun. One day, it will
Reach your stars, coat your planet. Spill by spill.
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Juleigh Howard-Hobson’s poetry has appeared in Valparaiso Poetry Review, Mobius, The Lyric, Able Muse, Capsule Stories, Poem Revised (Marion Street), Birds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea (Great Weather for Media), Weaving the Terrain (Dos Gatos) and other places. Nominations include Best of the Net, Pushcart, Rhysling and an Elgin. Her latest book is the Elgin nominated Our Otherworld (Red Salon).