Lois Marie Harrod

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The Cosmologist on His Divorce

We drifted apart
like two galaxies.

Neither of us accelerated,
and yet we separated—

at first not understanding
the cosmos itself

was expanding
and there was no way

we could leap the light years
back.

Lois Marie Harrod's 16th and most recent collection Nightmares of the Minor Poet appeared in June 2016 from Five Oaks; her chapbook And She Took the Heart appeared in January 2016, and Fragments from the Biography of Nemesis (Cherry Grove Press) and the chapbook How Marlene Mae Longs for Truth (Dancing Girl Press) appeared in 2013. She is continually published in literary journals and online ezines from American Poetry Review to Zone 3. She teaches Creative Writing at The College of New Jersey. Links to her online work at www.loismarieharrod.org