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title: The Big Dipper
genre: verse
project:
title: Stark Raving
css: 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
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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
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