BHS English Department reads “Meteor Shower” by Clint Smith
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May 18, 2021
To celebrate the Class of 2021, the English department at Batavia High School got together for a special reading of the poem “Meteor Shower,” from the collection Counting Descent by Clint Smith.
“Meteor Shower” by Clint Smith
I read somewhere that meteor showers
are almost always named after
the constellations from which
they originate. It’s funny, I think,
how even the universe is telling us
that we can never get too far
from the place that created us.
How there is always a streak of our past
trailing closely behind us
like a smattering of obstinate memories.
Even when we enter a new atmosphere,
become subsumed in flames, turn to dust,
lose ourselves in the wind, and scatter
the surface of all that rests beneath us,
we bring a part of where we are from
to every place we go.