The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct. (Joyce Carol Oates)

The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct.

Joyce Carol Oates

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