[Trappist]
Philip Harvey
Dear
Father Louis, TRAPPIST-1, not you
But
the named nearby ultracool dwarf star
Parents
seven terrestrial planets oooh aaah!
Goldilocks
hot and cold, but not too.
The
most famous anonymous man alive
Who
left his ego at the abbey door
Only
to meet him inside more and more,
Lo
the heavens were awesome and high five.
Novice
master, paper chase hero,
You
were the star wishing you were nameless:
A
line of ink titled Trappist Zero.
It’s
all over now, just words and silence
As
the sun beats down and who is blameless,
Each
name signing off its mortal compliance.
Footnote. Father Louis was the religious name of Thomas Merton,
the prolific Cistercian. Here is further information about the star in
question, which is about the size of Jupiter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAPPIST-1
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