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Kenneth Rexroth – Great Nebula of Andromeda

 
We get into camp after
dark, high on an open ridge
looking out over five thousand
feet of mountains and mile
beyond mile of valley and sea.
In the star-filled dark we cook
our macaroni and eat
by lantern light. Stars cluster
around our table like fireflies.
After supper we go straight
to bed. The night is windy
and clear. The moon is three days
short of full. We lie in bed
and watch the stars and the turning
moon through our little telescope.

Late at night the horses stumble
around camp and I awake.
I lie on my elbow watching
your beautiful sleeping face
like a jewel in the moonlight.
If you are lucky and the
nations let you, you will live
far into the twenty-first
century. I pick up the glass
and watch the Great Nebula
of Andromeda swim like
a phosphorescent amoeba
slowly around the Pole. Far
away in distant cities
fat-hearted men are planning
to murder you while you sleep.

Kenneth Rexroth
Gulf Book Poem Blog
on this May Day, 2012


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