Planet Nine by Sarah Henry
A big thing spins
in space. A huge
object’s gravity
pulls on debris
beyond Neptune.
This seems exotic
and could be true.
The heavyweight
is rumored to be
the Planet Nine.
The body’s unseen
and hard to know
as a ghost. It lies
in the range of
some telescopes.
Maybe the planet
will be located
with further study.
Finding the new
world would be
a thrill, a cosmic
prize, won when
it spins into view.
Sarah Henry is retired from a newspaper. Her poems have appeared in over a hundred journals, most recently "Jalmurra," "Open Door Magazine," and "The Journal of Expressive Writing." She lives and writes in a small Pennsylvania town.