My Identity Is Cosmic
by Jasper Hardin
Runestone, volume 5
Runestone, volume 5
My Identity Is Cosmic
by Jasper Hardin
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A constellation is recognized
as a constellation.
Since it’s regarded as fact.
There is no grey area or
argument against this.
Comets are just comets.
The Big Dipper will always
be the Big Dipper no matter
what beliefs we have
down here on earth.
The stars are
continuously fizzling out
while I’m standing
on the ground attempting to
make myself as concrete
and believable as a pattern built
of hydrogen and helium.
Hoping that maybe one day I’ll look at
myself and think I’m
a quarter as valuable as what helped
create the universe.
Hoping it will bother me less
if someone looks at me
and says:
you’re not actually a boy
I mean you’re not exactly a bundle of
light spinning in and out of existence
or as structured and
scientific as a constellation
you can’t be real can you?
it’s not like you’re the macrocosm that brought us all here.
I’ll smile at them
just enough to let
a galaxy spill out.
Jasper Hardin
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Jasper Hardin is a poet and visual artist who lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota. They competed in the 2018 Rustbelt Competition. They have work published in The Rising Phoenix Review, The Mighty and What Are Birds Journal. They are the founder of the new Explicit Literary Journal, which is specifically for nonspeaking and semi speaking disabled writers and visual artists.