Monday, May 10, 2010

Paperweights

Note: From my poetry thesis, "Mementos of a Hostile City."

I looked up at the stars stamped in blue dust
and tried to reclaim what could not be said

But the stars were paperweight prisms
and I was left with everything that stood still

Dark branches, shadowed against sky
Green domes and wet cobblestones
The indiscernible blue of my jeans

The unfiltered light of the moon


Written: circa Spring 2004

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