Re: Star Child Memory / Will Dockery (c & c)

Will Dockery wrote on Tue, 28 January 2020 14:32
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Star Child Memory

 > >
 > > Snapshot of a moment
 > > an outdoor poetry reading
 > > in early Spring 1996.
 > > Glimmering stars
 > > and looming moon
 > > through the gloom.
 > >
 > > Passing through
 > > in that cavern
 > > of concrete, glass and brick
 > > off Broadway.
 > > I join the poetry reading
 > > already in progress.
 > >
 > > There's a hush in the air
 > > as we approach.
 > > Star Child and her friends
 > > standing with me
 > > on the sidewalk.
 > >
 > > Glimmering stars above us
 > > Springtime
 > > constellations.
 > > Poets sit in a circle
 > > in the alley
 > > behind Bazaar Earth.
 > >
 > > In those early days
 > > so late in the game.
 > >
 > > But I couldn't remain
 > > back then
 > > I had to keep on moving.
 > > I told them they couldn't get
 > > high enough
 > > to float with me.
 > >
 > > Star Child twinkled and tweaked
 > > skipping by me
 > > in that spangled night.
 > > Stopping at the parking meter
 > > waving goodbye.
 > >
 > > -Will Dockery
 > >
 > > --------------------------------------------
 > > Draft post, comments and suggestions welcomed for the upcoming
re-write.
 > >
 > > Outstanding poem.....
 > >
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