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January 11, 2016, 5:32 a.m.

I heard my daughter throwing
things in her room,
aiming for her postered wall.
I didn’t know what happened
until I reached for my phone
and saw she’d lost her star.
So that night, I named an asteroid
or piece of flaring space junk
Ziggy. For her hero.
For our dog.
For all the things we lose.
For all the things that fall.

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Vivian Wagner is an associate professor of English at Muskingum University in New Concord, Ohio. Her work has appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Zone 3, KROnline, Narratively, Creative Nonfiction, and other publications. She is also the author of a memoir, Fiddle: One Woman, Four Strings, and 8,000 Miles of Music (Citadel).