from my unpublished second collection
don pietro lucia of padua, who having peered at mars through galileo’s telescope, swore to God he did not see a thing
that man digging in the twilight behind his house - the way her eyes keep snapping open, you can tell she must have fought hard. the crickets watching, too
so what if your work is lost. so what if your whole civilization is a shard of pottery puzzled over by scholars
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First published in The Fiddlehead
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