Thursday, August 13, 2015

INTERPRETING THE NIGHT

for someone

who can't

see the

sky for the

black cloud

over

his head


you're

sure

doing a

brisk business

as an

astronomer


like Whitman

you look up

and imagine

the constellations


but unlike you

Whitman actually

looked up

and saw

the stars








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