Sagittarius A* & Companion Star         A light year is a unit used by astronomers to describe the distance to and between stars. It is the distance traveled by a pulse of light. One light year is equivalant to about 5.88 trillion miles, which is 9.46 trillion kilometers. 25,000 light years from here a black hole spirals more massive than 2 million suns that's theoretical, of course. Detected indirectly by movement, the pull of radiated cast offs Built upon eons to become this gobbler from which nothing escapes, not even light I like its small companion star: how loyalty matters even in space. Stardust Theory We wear murdered stars on our fingers, in our ears and noses: extraterrestrial carbon creates diamonds. The stones we give to pledge our love were once galactic, the celestial orphans. A billion year old dance of veils crashed to earth: nothing more   than burned out light. Rapid Differential Rotation It isn't any accident the way they billow color into Hubble's eyes more complexly beautiful than cut diamonds How they reveal a structured-bubbled gas stellar dust that blows The stars pull in their arms to twirl like ballerinas Spatial Delights Jupiter has moons seventeen to be exact orange-graveled through blue clouds Moons, telescopic imaged darkly-cratered spectacles as purple as Venus with pancaked volcanoes Imaged on the Hubble lens sailed against black satin while stars revolve in red   we pray for rain (c) Dorothy Doyle Mienko 2001
	Dorothy Doyle Mienko "This is my bio: No past no future open mind open heart complete attention no reservations That's all."