{ Paul Guest: Pluto's Loss. }

[delga]

Pluto's Loss
by Paul Guest

on hearing of efforts to declassify Pluto as a planet


Little star, how lost to us you are already
and more to become, so small

that we here, distant and large and not ice
only, would demote you

to bobbin status, unplanet, chink of light
in a sky of major and minor

fire. For all your long orbit, who here cares:
some nights I try my heart at it

but little happens. The trees hoard a music
in them that must be locusts

aching to mate, to make more,
even to die. Clouds scuff the scarred moon

until it’s easy to forget you —
to think of water clotted

with green, where once I read Neruda
and Ovid distracted not by light

skipping off the scalloped lake
but by the memory of lace and sheer and bra —

by whom I loved. In that moment,
and in this one, I could not be

more human, to the dead sky
making apologies heard by no one, by nothing.

Comments

[belantana.livejournal.com]

to the dead sky
making apologies heard by no one, by nothing.

So I am commentspamming your poetry posts lately, but after my confusion at Richard Jackson I find this one totally amazing. Thanks for sharing.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

It's funny you should say that because Guest and Jackson hit me in the exact same place. (I think I posted Austria which is now one of my favourite things ever but if I didn't you should definitely read it (http://community.livejournal.com/breathe_poetry/412072.html).)

Plus: I am spamming WITH poetry. Spamming TO poetry is equally acceptable :)

[belantana.livejournal.com]

Oh! I do remember that one, but not the author. I love the shifting pace of it. And that other you posted today, lovely lovely - might have to invest in a book of this guy!

(On a completely different note, what is your delightful page font? Hacking your css to find out seems a little bit like surreptitiously lifting a dinnerplate to read the name on the bottom.)

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Lord I am trying to love this world, however it is fated to end <3

(Um... I don't know? Lol. CSS says... Lucida, but I'm not certain it is? I think it might be Helvetica? I DON'T KNOW D: