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Note
for a Missing Friend
by Dina Ben-Lev
1991,
29 pages
Winner of the 1991 Sapering Hol Press
Chapbook Competition.
"The
Planetarium"
There's
nothing to hate on Mars.
No canals filled with old Chevy.
No children pushed
in closets
by parents to angry to listen.
Our necks hurt from looking up,
but
the universe is easy:
velvet ceiling where planets take turns,
Venus, shy
behind a veil of clouds,
Pluto, the bruised baseball we could
never find;
and the Milky Way,
chalky with hot meteor.
Stars live for million of
years
before losing heat. Saturn is
surrounded with enough ice bullets
to
break all the windows in America.
A boy next to me wants to ride a comet tail.
His
mother shushes him with: Later.
What if the arrows drifted off the ceiling,
pointing to the pretzel man who came in
to escape the heat, the girl
first
row who dreams of a dead lover,
the party of old women: each remembering
a
moon fully hers.
When the lights come on,
we can barely see.
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