The trees unravel,
plowed by a bright prow.
What’s light enough
to travel this high?
The stars’ cold shards,
the clouds’ tatters.
Even the moon’s ship
has lost a sail.
Issue: Spring 2013 » Poetry
BEST OF THE NET 2023; Essay in THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2018;
(cited in BAE 2015, 2016, 2020, 2022); PUSHCART poetry finalist
Issue: Spring 2013 » Poetry
The trees unravel,
plowed by a bright prow.
What’s light enough
to travel this high?
The stars’ cold shards,
the clouds’ tatters.
Even the moon’s ship
has lost a sail.
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