Re: Star Child Memory / Will Dockery

> 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
> 
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> Draft post, comments and suggestions welcomed for the upcoming re-write.
> 
> :)



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

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