Stephan’s Quintet

 

Look at the photograph
from Hubble

Almost every point of light
here is a galaxy, a thing unto itself

Of five galaxies,
four are moving away rapidly
the fifth less so

So, from the four
the fifth is moving away

and from us,
their distance is so far
that we think that
four recede and one approaches

Relativity reminds me
to somehow show my velocity
away from you
Long light years of time ago.

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