“TO SIRIUS B,” by Brooks Haxton

Poetry faculty member Brooks Haxton recently had a poem featured in Scoundrel Time. Read an excerpt below:

TO SIRIUS B

Your sister, the Dog Star, was the brightest.
You, the Pup, nobody even saw, until one night
in eighteen sixty-two, when a young man
with a telescope of his own devise looked up,
and there, where the wobble in your sister’s gait
suggested you might be, you were, a white dwarf.
Scientists, when they could read your temperature,
said a thimbleful of you must weigh a ton.

Read the poem in its entirety here: https://scoundreltime.com/to-sirius-b/