July 2023
Joe Miano
jmiano@cox.net
Bio Note: I am a retired physics teacher who has written poems ever since High School. I have taught in Kenya with the Peace Corps, in South Bend, Indiana, and in Oklahoma City. I have published two historical fiction novels: A Thief in the African Night: The Conflicts of Change in 2020 and The Scribe of Akrai: Luxo Reveals the Secrets of Trinacria in 2022.They each include a few of my poems and are available on Amazon.

Stardust

Stardust
Burning white-hot stars
Or Red Giants
Shooting electrons
Atoms, particles, and quarks
Spewed into the black void
Creating new worlds and creatures.

Grey ash
Meteors falling 
Covering earth 
Planets and moons
Feeding new life 
New beings.

Ashes
Our ashes
Millenia of ashes
Our dead
What will I become?
A soaring condor
A slick silver-blue barracuda
A slithering venomous snake
Or a fragrant red rose
Or an unknown being on a distant world
Light years away
Carried by the solar wind.
Stardust.
©2023 Joe Miano
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