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2title: The Big Dipper
3id: big-dipper
4genre: verse
5
6project:
7 title: Stark Raving
8 class: stark
9 order: 2
10 next:
11 - title: The Moon is drowning
12 link: moon-drowning
13 - title: Something about the nature of poetry and time
14 link: poetry-time
15 prev:
16 - title: The Death Zone
17 link: death-zone
18 - title: Table of Contents
19 link: table_contents
20...
21
22After searching for days or even months \
23I finally find it reclining lazily \
24[above the peaks][] above the city as if to ask \
25Did you miss me? Yes very much I reply \
26and rush to embrace it but it smiles \
27and recoils and tells me No no you \
28have to try harder than that it says \
29I do not give myself up so easily
30
31I try a different tack \
32I sing to it bring it flowers nightly \
33I compare its eyes to the morning dew \
34it has not seen the morning dew \
35I say its mouth is the sunset over mountains \
36it knows mountains but the sunset \
37is only a rumor from the Evening Star \
38I tell the Big Dipper that it moves \
39[like a quiet river across the earth][]
40
41Rivers I have seen says the Big Dipper \
42they sparkle in the light from my stars \
43Your stars like eyes I say and it smiles \
44[No it says that is too easy][] \
45It turns its back \
46it walks home along the back of the mountain
47
48[above the peaks]: finding-the-lion.html
49[like a quiet river across the earth]: no-nothing.html
50[No it says that is too easy]: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/writer