Sources:
Blackout Elegy:
Prince’s last dialogue from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Source: http://shakespeare.mit.edu/romeo_juliet/full.html
terrestrial, celestial:
ASTRONOMERS DISCOVER A PLANET WITH ONE OF THE MOST UNUSUAL SHAPES EVER SEEN
Ankur Jyoti Saikia (he/ him) is a forestry researcher in India with works being published in the Minison Zine, Bluepepper, Sledgehammer Lit, Openwork mag, Holyflea, Pop the culture pill, Thanks hun Zine, The Daily Drunk, The Sparrow’s Trombone, Paper Trail Literary Journal and The Dirigible. Twitter: @amythfromassam