Issue 4:
Star
Allen Itz
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There was no sunrise this morning,
because of an overcast sky.
It was dark, then light,
with only a moment between.
But during that moment,
a temporary thinning of the haze
let a single star shine through,
a single star that seemed
to race across the sky,
an illusion of the moving clouds.
Years passed away, taking me back
to the cool October nights of 1957,
lying spread-eagled with my friends
on a football field, watching
the dark Texas sky, waiting
for the new Cossack star.
There it is, one of us would shout,
and we would see it, moving quickly
from horizon to horizon,
the materialization of our dreams,
a manifestation of the paperback
prophesies of our secret heroes...
Clarke, Heinlein, Asimov, Burroughs...
there it was, bright among the further stars,
beeping, blinking, speeding
across the virgin sky.
We knew it would come.
We knew and we waited,
and the future passed overhead.
~Allen Itz
Allen's work also appears in The Horsethief's Journal, and Alchemy. He regularly posts critiques and poems-in-progress at the Blueline Poetry Forum. Email.
© 1999 by Allen Itz. All Rights Reserved.
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This page updated April 23, 2002.