Poetry

Asterism

Light articulates and discloses
The marks and voids that equal
The letters of an alphabet.

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An empty room is freighted
With what it no longer holds:
The cancellations, the accretions.

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An upset bucket. A folding chair.
How few objects make of a stage
A bridal chamber, a ruined temple?

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Collapsed distance unfixes
From time: a trackless hinterland
Scuffed and buffed by high winds.

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What is the function of wonder?
An apple cut half wise
Reveals a five-pointed seed-star.

Eric Pankey

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