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Naming The Stars

 This present tragedy will eventually
turn into myth, and in the mist
of that later telling the bell tolling
now will be a symbol, or, at least,
a sign of something long since lost.
This will be another one of those loose changes, the rearrangement of hearts, just parts of old lives patched together, gathered into a dim constellation, small consolation.
Look, we will say, you can almost see the outline there: her fingertips touching his, the faint fusion of two bodies breaking into light.

Poem by Joyce Sutphen
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