Another day, another
astrophysicist.

This one says she listens
to the stars–

everything out there
emitting radio waves,

she knows them by
their frequencies,

tuning the dial,
different things come in–

births, deaths,
black holes, quasars–

and never saying
the same thing twice,

not quite,
she tells me

this often is
overlooked,

perhaps due in part
to our unconscious

desire to make
the things we love

immutable