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StarCat/CatStar is dedicated to the memory of David Bowie, that cosmic subversive who’s returned at last to his ethereal home.

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Scientist<br />

By Amme Broumand<br />

list: parts of an atom, speckled with eyes; the foot<br />

of a disfigured carp which—one summer night—crept forth<br />

from its fountain; the ambered body of an earthworm<br />

that once climbed aboard a bee and rushed<br />

towards the sun—<br />

(my treasures, heaped<br />

before me like so much trash, wrinkle<br />

inwards upon themselves, evanescing with a gleam<br />

into the dark (almost as if they were<br />

angry—<br />

Author bio: Amee Broumand is an Iranian American poet from the Pacific<br />

Northwest. She was homeschooled; despite her wariness of academia, she<br />

eventually got a B.A. in English and Philosophy. She loves hiking,<br />

photography, and Finnegans Wake.

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