Kaleidoscope
For Sasha Desideri's "Ministry of Silly Pictures" Unofficial Poetry Challenge
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Description: Kaleidoscope of stars in space
It started as a child.
A cousin with a tube of plastic,
a beam of light (a trick,
I thought). After a while,
you forget those astral bodies:
stars, comets, meteors,
suns too far to believe, quasars,
constellations, certain strange gravities.
All from that first look
(I wonder if I stare now
to step away from this dull space:
home, table, notes in a book).
That child stared up from below,
and the world grew in a distant place.
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