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# Galaxy
- URL: https://dianaludwick.com/galaxy/
- Published: 2026-08-05T12:48:39.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-05T12:48:39.000Z
- Description: “Galaxy,” a pre-work day insterstellar journey for one, written Wednesday, August 05, 2026 poem 217 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. Photo: "Glistening Galaxy," By Diana Ludwick © 2026.
- Author: Diana Ludwick
- Tags: 2026 Poetry Challenge, Poems, Runaway Imagination, Short-form Musings, Uncategorized, Adulthood, Asphalt, August, Breaststroking, Coffee, Consequences, Cubano roast, Dove, Exoplanets, Fridge, Galaxy, Harvested, High Summer, Interstellar, Magic, Milky Way, Monotony, Stars, Storms, Summer, Summer Rain, Universe, Wednesday, Wonder, Workday, #Migrated-1792872215677, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-24 20:03

Dove grey light leaks in through blinds, storms brew.  
Gravity pulls; atmospheric pressure holds me low,   
fog to summer-warm asphalt.  
August rain jingles on the roof like wet fairy bells.  
  
Self-evicted from warm linens, descend cool stairs.  
Welcomed by a rumbling fridge   
— and its grumpy compressor —  
the consequences and monotony of adulthood beckon.  
  
Before Wednesday takes full form, I seek an escape hatch.  
Lost in constellations of bubble-bright stars,   
I trace the milky way, the bands of exoplanets, and  
trance-inducing nebulae swirling in my Cubano roast.  
  
Soon I'll don my leader costume and settle, rigid and rational.  
In the waning moments of freedom, jostled by the thrum of a nearby appliance   
that could just as well be an interstellar propulsion system,  
I glide through the velvet beyond, incrementally absorbing energy.  
Breaststroking through crema spheres and creamy belts of luminous java,  
I plunge deep, swimming through this glistening galaxy for one.  
  
Having toured the universe, if ever briefly,  
I can land bravely, surely;  
launch into my day, buoyed by magic   
and the wonder harvested from a great expanse.