Poetry – Issue 6 | August 2009
Getting There
by Richard Spuler
Coming this far, we are
the heavy craft, bound to describe
the half-life of black holes.
We think: it must be
a fabulous room, large enough for
the portraits of harbored silence.
Our eyes at night, even closed,
see the world upside-down,
see the long, long shadows of day.
Now, when the footprints
on this shore are ours,
it is time to spell our names again.
Overhead, overhead, all
the stars have fallen in our pockets
before we’re home.
And on the way there
we’ll share a story,
the only one that’s ever told.
It begins: Someone dreams.
While dust settles in the sky
we’ll hold the darkness in our sleeves.
About the author
Spuler’s poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines. For nearly twenty years he has served as Senior Lecturer in German at Rice University in Houston, TX. He enjoys music and reading.
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Poetry
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Two Poems by Sean Edgley
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Painter by Ricky Garni
Other Than by Dana Guthrie Martin
Two poems by Timothy Kercher
Five Views of Guanajuato: A Mythology by Athena Kildegaard
Two poems by Mary Kovaleski Byrnes
Goya by Trent Nutting
The Changing of the Flowers by Jennifer Saunders
Two poems by Ken Turner
Postcard prose
Buttons by Jennifer Faylor
The Enemy Tree by Kirby Wright
Escape on the Canal by Addie Zierman
