He tells you not to place anything on the wall

as he exists within a vacuum.

 

He will strip dreams from your hands,

coins from your pocket and, one day,

 

all the images consigned to the void will

be a reminder in absence that no man

 

may be a God. Not Moses, not the man

you married, nor the carbon forms who

 

project into your horizon, canvassing

for things they can steal; heat from the

 

healing, shaking from the wound, blood

from the birth – or whatever. They want it.

 

They think they are unseen and so, invisible

but a theory is enough to keep you safe.

 

Sagittarius A* is a supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. It has an approximate mass of 4 million Suns. A compact radio source at its location was first detected in 1974, and the first direct image of it was captured in 2022.

 

jw summerisle is an autistic poet from the English East Midlands. A former Foyle Young Poet of the Year, they have published two chapbooks: kinfolk (2022) with Black Sunflowers Poetry Press, and the book of bad mothers (2024) with Back Room Poetry. Their first full collection, Wat Tyler’s Candy Pink Dream House, is forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books in 2027.