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Stars

November 16, 2014
By OzymandiasAengus PLATINUM, Bronx, New York
OzymandiasAengus PLATINUM, Bronx, New York
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Distance.

 

 

 


*a breath*

 

 

 

 

 


Strings twinkling
between dark
and dark

 

I point up at the sky and ask my father standing grasslike in
the dark

 

“What is that?”

 

“That is time,” he says
“That is day and day immemorial,
“That is the sea explorers like you are soon to conquer,
“my son.

 

“That is light.”


The author's comments:

From an assignment to write a poem about light. In form and mechanic inspired by Stephen Crane's poem "In the Desert". I remember stargazing in a field in New Hampshire or Maine and being unable to tear my eyes away from the sky. 


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