Leonid

On the night of November 16, 1966, the Leonid meteor shower, which occurs in November of each year, rained down on Arizona at the rate of 2300 meteors per minute for a 20 minute period.

Oleg still swears that the man who attempted to break into his house was Leonid.

Leonid opened the door and startled Rima.

Leonid planned to visit Rima at the hospital.

Leonid saw Rima’s mother crying.

Leonid was alone sitting near the bed.

Leonid has disappeared this morning.

Leonid suffered from leukemia.

Leonid is not there either.

Leonid entered his grandfather’s house.

I wrote my first story about the ghost of a horse leaping from a cascade of flame just after the leonids had been more torrential than men had remembered them for centuries.

Night of your birth. Thirty-three. The Leonids they were called. God how the stars did fall. I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens. The Dipper stove.

I was surprised by […] the unusually tall windows, […] through which long telescopes were once turned on eclipses of the sun and the moon, on the intersections of the orbits of the stars with the line of the meridian, on the Leonid meteorite showers and the long-tailed comets flying through space.