Allan Peterson

 

 

Stars on
a Wire

 

Local Influence

 

 

Some gravity yes
but I would say fishes assist
in driving the rivers
As a stir imparts swirls
for which the spoon is responsible
likewise Mullet & Bluefish turn
the recurved gyres of the Gulf

Things are what they seem
Celery is constructed of lake ice & floss
what headlights sweep across dark rooms
are ghosts for a moment  and out there
the occasional thin shadow of Earth
flickers over Andromeda and who knows
what is made of it

Influence works best at close range
People daily respond to the sign of the Discount
hoarding & selling under the influence
of the Handgun  the Oil Spill constellation
Those controlled like stars by the Wood's Night Voices
are parading in hospitals and on the roof
the rooster and the copper whale turn searching
like scouts  The stars camped in the night
are just fires of someone else's far argument

 

 


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