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+title: The Big Dipper
+id: big-dipper
+genre: verse
+
+project:
+    title: Stark Raving
+    class: stark
+    order: 2
+    next:
+    - title: The Moon is drowning
+      link: moon-drowning
+    - title: Something about the nature of poetry and time
+      link: poetry-time
+    prev:
+    - title: The Death Zone
+      link: death-zone
+    - title: Table of Contents
+      link: table_contents
+...
+
+After searching for days or even months \
+I finally find it reclining lazily \
+[above the peaks][] above the city as if to ask \
+Did you miss me?  Yes very much I reply \
+and rush to embrace it but it smiles \
+and recoils and tells me No no you \
+have to try harder than that it says \
+I do not give myself up so easily
+
+I try a different tack \
+I sing to it bring it flowers nightly \
+I compare its eyes to the morning dew \
+it has not seen the morning dew \
+I say its mouth is the sunset over mountains \
+it knows mountains but the sunset \
+is only a rumor from the Evening Star \
+I tell the Big Dipper that it moves \
+[like a quiet river across the earth][]
+
+Rivers I have seen says the Big Dipper \
+they sparkle in the light from my stars \
+Your stars like eyes I say and it smiles \
+[No it says that is too easy][] \
+It turns its back \
+it walks home along the back of the mountain
+
+[above the peaks]: finding-the-lion.html
+[like a quiet river across the earth]: no-nothing.html
+[No it says that is too easy]: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/writer