ode to every planet i will die without visitingi. kissing you is the closest i will ever come to space travel. i know you are impossible to reach in this lifetime but i reach my hands out, ad infinitum, because if it’s true that you are god and i can see you from my telescope in the galaxy andromeda-- then when i look at you from here what i am really seeing is you 2.5 million years ago & i know i am doomed to always be behind you. even this is enough. ii. i have fled every dimension that reminds me of your skin hoping this will lead me back home but i didn't leave footprints on the miles of treaded space between;