#1408 - things from the sky

 

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things from the sky

 

wisp and glow, glitter

are high as far

must have imagined us

 

bladder’s worth, wild hair

boxes and space junk

 

things from the sky

shine like a mirror

 

sky chimes

stars fall, just for instance

to remind us of the general direction

 

these cheapest tricks

as anyone knows

 

of course there are biblical plagues

all kinds attested

the wail and gnash

 

things from the sky

such as ourselves

 

each sudden as another

agelessly bright

we each only see

they burn to be

 

call paradise up

 

nor are they for sale

 

prayers caught up in cloud

 

then what’s the rain like?

how does it mean?

 

things from the sky

spill shadows

dance up

as of a sea

show

we’ll soon be falling

soon be down

 

thunder and lightning for nemesis

 

and we ourselves – of the million any one moment aloft –

are where we leave selves until time

 

we are such things of the sky