Hila Ratzabi was born in Rehovot, Israel, and is the author of the chapbook The Apparatus of Visible Things. She holds two BAs, as well as an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. A finalist in Narrative’s Fifth Annual Poetry Contest, she was also selected by Adrienne Rich as a recipient of a National Writers Union Poetry Prize. Ratzabi lives in Rehovot.

Sedna in Space

by Hila Ratzabi

Our newly discovered object is the coldest most distant place known in the solar system, so we feel it is appropriate to name it in honor of Sedna, the Inuit goddess of the sea, who is thought to live at the bottom of the frigid arctic ocean.
                                                                  —Mike Brown, astronomer


Now you’re nothing
but a dwarf planet at the edge
of the asteroid formerly known as Pluto,

neighbor to demoted planet,
atmosphere-less,
stunted.
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