Re: Star Child Memory / Will Dockery

> Hector Heathcliff wrote:
> Will Dockery wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Star Child Memory
>> 
>> Snapshot of a moment
>> an outdoor poetry reading
>> in early Spring 1996.
>> Glimmering stars
>> and looming moon
>> through the gloom.
>> 
>> Passing through
>> in that cavern
>> of concrete, glass and brick
>> off Broadway.
>> I join the poetry reading
>> already in progress.
>> 
>> There's a hush in the air
>> as we approach.
>> Star Child and her friends
>> standing with me
>> on the sidewalk.
>> 
>> Glimmering stars above us
>> Springtime
>> constellations.
>> Poets sit in a circle
>> in the alley
>> behind Bazaar Earth.
>> 
>> In those early days
>> so late in the game.
>> 
>> But I couldn't remain
>> back then
>> I had to keep on moving.
>> I told them they couldn't get
>> high enough
>> to float with me.
>> 
>> Star Child twinkled and tweaked
>> skipping by me
>> in that spangled night.
>> Stopping at the parking meter
>> waving goodbye.
>> 
>> -Will Dockery
>> 
>> --------------------------------------------
>> Draft post, comments and suggestions welcomed for the upcoming re-write.
>> 
>> :)
>> 
> 
> 
> Outstanding addition to the Shadowville Mythos, Doc....



Thanks again for the nod, Hector.

😏 


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