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Stars, Planets, Heavens

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  • Poem

    From the magazine:Sky Glee

    By Jane Flett
    Last night, at the excavation: pig wine & a searchlight moon. We watched seven equidistant stars make…
  • Poem

    From the magazine:

    sǫ’

    By Manny Loley
    chahóółhxeel
    sǫ’ bitsádinidiin
    nahookǫs bikǫ’
    binaago deikaah
    sǫ’ binahjį’
    hane’ náás oot’ih
  • Poem

    From the magazine:star poem

    By Manny Loley
    Translated By Manny Loley
    night drapes
    stars emit light
    around the north star-fire
    stars journey
    in their wake
    stories extend…
  • Audio
    By Manny Loley
  • Poem

    From the magazine:Where’s My Moon?

    By Carole Boston Weatherford
    Gazing at the sky, all cloud-strewn
    A child wonders, Where’s my moon?

    Child cries a river like a monsoon…
  • Poem

    From the magazine:Dispatch from the Edge of the Universe

    By Lesley Younge
    The first time
    I tell someone I’ve thought about
    ending it

    is right after the first time
    someone tells me…
  • Poem

    From the magazine:What the Moon Said to the Poet

    By Luivette Resto
    Your obsession is baffling,
    with numerous stanzas dedicated to my phases
    and the personification of …
  • Poem

    From the magazine:The Moon Can’t Remember Anything

    By Li-Young Lee
    Doubt everything.
    But never doubt the moon
    was in the room with us that night.
    It touched each place…
  • Poem
    By Thomas Traherne
    I saw new Worlds beneath the Water ly,
    New Peeple; yea, another Sky
    And Sun, which seen by Day
    Might things…
  • Poem
    By Sri Chinmoy
    Within, without the cosmos wide am I;
    In joyful sweep I loose forth and draw back all.
    A birthless, deathless…
  • Poem

    From the magazine:

    His Own Apollo

    By Cyrus Cassells
    My friend is by no means Dracula or a werewolf,
    but the full moon’s mostly lawless beauty

    has never failed to tantalize him,
    to lure him outdoors.

    Tonight the gallivanting moon,
    all systems go,

    makes a pallid cascade in the Roman street,
    while my spirited mentor relates,

    over...
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