Ashes to Ashes



Ashes to Ashes

How can the heart beat
in so many places
all at once

tiny fire
little star

Constellations 
drowning in a midnight ocean

Pulses of light 
extinguished billions of years ago

Merely a distant echo
to be felt from lifetime to lifetime
without ever connecting 

We illuminate the infinite universe
and with a single exhalation

dust

Angela Minard 2015©

Photography by~ Stephanie Dalton Cowan

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