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A Better TelescopE

from the skin, the sea, the sound by Joshua Stamper

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A leaf is a world and its flag is unfurled,
and an ocean is dropped from the sky.
Splintered suns play inside watery walls,
with the pitch and the shift of a pearl.

I'm trolling the trill of the tiniest sounds,
while six-legged citizens bustle and build.
Dip oars in the dirt, create eddies of earth,
sail past skyscrapers under the ground.

O but Pattern maker, Pattern breaker,
you've gotta grip, you've gotta grip around my heart.
For you, I need a better microscope,
O you, you are off the charts.
My instruments break, my readings won't take
I want to be with you.

My eye skirts and rims the vault's colorless lid,
and spinning larks sing and fling light at the sky.
I race and I reach for the whirling whipped wake,
the trail of a star’s peel and skid.

Pattern maker, Pattern breaker,
you've gotta grip, you've gotta grip around my heart.
For you, I need a better telescope.
O you, you are off the charts.
My instruments break, my readings won't take
I want to be with you. I want to be with you.

For you, I need a better calculus,
With you, the math no longer works.
My equations are drained, a picture-less frame,
You’re terror, you’re grace, you are rest, you’re the chase,
you're the notes on my page, the wild with no cage.
I want to be with you.

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from the skin, the sea, the sound, released April 1, 2014

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