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When Gravity Pulls

By Jasmine Aguila

Illustration by Yibeni Tungoe

Along the bend of middle atmosphere, I’m flung

into your arms: an open arch strained & silver adrift

in the dark. I wondered about my momentum—

I came down hard, crater carved along your shoulder.

The silhouette of my smoldering core, an imperfect

graft, sewn with stardust into your hollow chest.

I feel a snag in the running stitch down the hem,

where it bloats and churns and you consume me.

To have been isolated, by mere breaths of a moment,

we’ve succumbed to an eternity. Fallen from old forms

as island galaxies, we now spiral bonded, in solitude.

I found myself lodged in your throat coated in cosmos.

Within your new hips, I fell silent between each fold

of our newborn universe, made up of multi-vortexes

that howled in solar flared outbursts. Volcanoes combusted

on our virgin skin with raw particles that never got along.

You’ve absorbed my body, every whisp of my soul.

I wonder if you can make out my nebula wrecked ghost.


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Posted On: April 25, 2026
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