A Leonid meteor.
"The sky is streaked with them
burning hole in black space --
like fireworks, someone says
all friendly in the dark chill
of Newcomb Hollow in November,
friends known only by voices.''
-- From "Leonids Over Us,'' by Marge Piercy, who is referring to the Leonids meteor shower. Newcomb Hollow is in Wellfleet, on Outer Cape Cod.
