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+title: The Big Dipper
+genre: verse
+
+id: big-dipper
+toc: "The big dipper"
+
+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