The Remarkable Heavens
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The Remarkable Heavens
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The Remarkable Heavens We are all sailing in a circle, The globe leans toward the seasons. We are a part of heavenly declensions Doing what we have to do, ice And icy icebergs or, inclined The other way, steamy swamps, The damp crocodile in them, O tears! What shall we do Taken for a ride around the sky? Stars blink in the passage, the sun Goes up and down while the hermit prays. Yesterday we passed through Leo, The zodiac a ninth month gone and No parturition. Last Monday fortnight I observed The moon at the lake-edge with my love. It was only half there. Tomorrow I master astronomy and play like Liszt. I can remember sirens I cranked Going round corners, fires dreamed; Cabooses rode. Now I take up Heaven. Orion went out just now Quenched by a horizon and the pole star Just swung around and stayed there. Ralph Gustafson. Hand set in Garamond and printed in an edition of one hundred copies by Llorens & Son for Oolichan Books, July 21, 1980.This is copy number 22
