Will Sandberg

Galaxies Continue to Spin After Their Formation

It has been proven that half of all spiral galaxies

appear to be rotating clockwise and the other half

counterclockwise. A ying-yang. A sundial’s shadow.

Burnouts with whitewall tires. Smoke. Clouds. Doing

donuts. Figure eights. Eight ball. A crow and a dove. A

hearse. Go toward the light. Eat my dust. Rewind the

tape. Reverse. A black hole. A meteor shower.

Pockmarked with potholes, then paved over. Asphalt.

Blacktop. The tar pits that trapped the dinosaurs.

Fossils. Bone. Fuel burned up into the atmosphere.

You see stars when you rub your closed eyes. Rolling

snake eyes. A starfield against a black backdrop. Or a

snowfall against a night sky. Dust in a still room. Old,

grainy, black and white footage. The X-rays show

angel wings. The grim reaper’s cloak. The silent

movie’s subtitles read “…” Static on the screen.

Scribbling a dark thought or a bright idea in a spiral

notebook. A double helix. Black clouds over a single

jasmine bloom. Stare into the abyss. At the sun, until

you go blind. No offense, of course, but I have to ask,

What do you see when you’re born totally blind? All

black or all white? Can you know how either looks?

Will Sandberg graduated from Flagler College and lives in Florida. He loves his wife, PC gaming, and watching sports.