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PAMelA l l SuMnerS
Grounding by Stars
The wild wild alchemy of stars is is all your eyes’
gleaming We navigate this seamless wilderness
through its seeing and pat trees’ ghostly moss one hour’s insurance on on on on on seasonal loss a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a profile
tossing like like any two-faced Janus in in in in in in in in my my head tilting
like like symphonic bars but never never never never meant for hearing grim
notes that that never never never never never never never never could shake you you you They’ll split these stars stars stars knit themselves back into constellations as as as as stars stars stars do I I I would would never never never never wake you you you you you here because
the the the the the the stars stars stars need their rest I I I would would tell tell you you you you you you that that sometimes
I I I I let them them them them spell me me me me ask them them them them to to to visit earth numbly alert
and and dreaming to to to to follow your your your route in in in in in in in in in moonbeams tracing
or or or or erasing your your your steps past potted ferns in in in in in in in in stale and and and dusty libraries reading your your your Little Golden Books on on shelves of of memory that that cannot forget themselves I’ve seen
these these lurking stars stars skulking by elevators that that carry us us us us down pummeling us us us us to to to to earth ageless as as as as as as gymno- and and angiosperms sharp-toothed as as as as as dinosaurs worthless
as as as as as the the the the the the the the the last rattling breath of of of a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a fetid pillow pleading with
the the the the the the the the the reaper for your health Oh these these nefarious stars stars batter the the the the the the the the doors of of our our our our petty scarred monti-terra to to to to to drag us us us us us back against time to to to to to sputter their their spent gaseous blazes
on on on on on our our our our home hearths and and and and pronounce their their paths to to to to to elegant extinction heaven Bilious masses they seem so neat and and and and and tidy dressed in in in in in in Orion’s flashy belt They They pierce our our our static biology
with
promise and and and and and and threat and and and and and and mortality They They call us us us us to to to to the the the the the the the the small blessed dream-tossed Eden of of serpentine angels sleeping sleeping prayerfully and and and and and unawares on on on on adjacent feather pillows We know know them them only by by their their sleeping sleeping shapes The The The stars know know them them by by their their charted geography and and and and dust-clouds of of breath