Blackbird an online journal of literature and the arts Spring 2008 Vol. 7 No. 1

POETRY


ELEANOR ROSS TAYLOR

R.J.

The meteor loosed
from the council of worlds
flashes and cartwheels through
pure emptiness,
burns itself out
in earth’s atmosphere,
too dingy, cacophonous
for its ear’s anapest.  


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