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Stars.(New poems)(Poem)
New Criterion
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November 01, 2003 |
Aitchison, James |
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Stars
Except in that near-equinoctial light
of an autumn evening or late afternoon
when we might see the zodiacal arc
of stars and planets, sun and crescent moon,
we cannot see the stars until the night
is all around us and the skies are dark.
Children, Keats called them, because their domain
was also his: he stared at the night skies
and ...
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