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May 16, 2019 Arts + Scene » Poetry

The Big Dipper

By Kirk Gothier

Dangles above the coastline
Where countless stars and waves

Welcome me home.

One of these stars
Is extremely rare

Having immigrated

From a Dwarf Galaxy
Far, far away…

All of the waves come
From foreign lands

Much closer to home.

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