Wednesday, August 5, 2009

488. THE GIRL WHO NAMED PLUTO IS DEAD

THE GIRL WHO
NAMED PLUTO IS DEAD
(Venetia Burney, 1919)
Eleven years old, nineteen, thirty-one,
forty-seven, fifty-six, seventy, seventy-seven,
eighty-four, eighty-eight, eighty-nine,
ninety - like the sun in the sky, the
black -globe-darkness distant-flash
planet passing; named after the
Roman God of the Underworld:
Pluto. The old woman who named
Pluto is dead.

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