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Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Spotter

I have written often about astronauts,
and yet,
there are very few of them in my neighborhood
and none
in my bed or at my breakfast table.

I wonder if the loneliness of the moon
stayed on them and around them
like a gray empty dust,
keeping them from kissing anyone?

I have often wondered, too,
at the way they only endure my tender attention to their visors
with my lavender-scented cloth
and my blush.

Here you are, made of stars, taking my breath away
with just the swirl and fact of you.
Knock knock--
it's me.
There were dogs sent up before me,
and you loved them;
why not love me now?
I have the same easy eyes
and goofy logic.

"She's a space case," they say about me.
"She's way out there!"
but I'm not,
I'm right here,
standing on the bright red X of my heart,
up on the tips of my toes, searching the skies,
trying to flag you down
win you
spin you
guide you in.
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10 comments:

  1. Hard to win something that is a million miles away, floating through outer space on a mission,I would think--but if anything could lure it down, it would have to be words like this.As always you write the quintessential love song, with a light and yearning touch. I'm reminded of the Dylan lyric: "There's a long-distance train/pullin' through the rain/tears on the letter I write./There's a woman I long to touch/and I'm missing her so much/but she's drifting/like a satellite..."

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  2. ... 'I wonder if the loneliness of the moon stayed on them and around them' I wonder too.

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  3. This is incredibly inventive. I love it.

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  4. Sigh. I can see you up on the tips of your toes. Poignant and so lovely, this poem.

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  5. Gorgeous writing here. Loved this very much.

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  6. sigh. you pluck longing like daisies as though you have an abundant garden of yearning growing outside your door.

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  7. a sad wind blew through me from the photo you chose to the end. Nicely done.





    ALOHA to YOU
    from Honolulu
    Comfort Spiral
    =^..^=




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  8. another of those i will re-read because there's so much to take in

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  9. Hedge mentions the light touch, and I have to agree with her. This is perfectly balanced.

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