blackbird online journal spring 2002 vol.1 no. 1

POETRY


JENNIFER CHANG

Field Guide to the Night Sky

No one witnesses
the history of light.
The sky litters itself
with dust and I’m unsettled
by the steadfast burn
of thinking.
The night sky reaches
inside me,
I am sleepless
waiting for each star
to cross
into its corner, flower
then dim.
I do not believe
in paradise:
to flower, then dim. 


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