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Moonrise
The stars spilled as far as eye can see,
a pointalistic blanket for the universe –
night after night the same white lights
of many magnitudes define the limits
of my dreams. So was the world, so
would it always be –
until the earth turned edgeways
and a vast strange moon
broke across the skyline in the south,
making everything beside it
just pinpricks
in the fabric of my world.
Stan Galloway teaches writing and literature at Bridgewater College in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Contact him at sgallowa@bridgewater.edu, if you would like him to read his poetry at your event. His poetry has appeared online at vox poetica, Loch Raven Review, Caper Literary Journal, The Atrium, and Apollo’s Lyre. In print, his poems have shown up in Midnight Zoo, the Burroughs Bulletin, WestWard Quarterly, and the book Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Second Century. His book of literary criticism, The Teenage Tarzan, came out in 2010.
Email: Stan Galloway
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