The Sun Warns Pluto

On 19th March 1915, Pluto was sighted, and photographed, for the first time. My dark child, my pock-marked changeling, my waif encased in ice, they’ve spotted you through their glass eyes, they’ve caught the smear of your shadow on their lens – my coldest and last, my echo-ball who knows me by memory not by light, they’ve spied you through the night and their voices are raised – my tiny pulse, my almost-debris, who pulls on the coat-tails of stars, hide your face, little death, hide your face.