The Best American Poetry 2023 by David Lehman & Elaine Equi

Author:David Lehman & Elaine Equi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2023-09-05T00:00:00+00:00

from Three Fold

SARAH ANNE WALLEN I can see Mars

I’m pretty sure

it’s Mars

I can see it

a red star

but

a planet

Mars

It’s still there!

For days

not a plane

three days

at least

not moving.

Mars is there.

It’s really

there.

I’ve been

watching it

that red

dot is Mars

for days

it stays.

I hear

other people

talk about it

voices

Definitely

MARS.

My birthday

comes and goes

I care more

than I should

I was overdue

at birth

steam

came off

Will Mars

still be there

with its red

glow

in the sky?

That dot.

I must remember

look for Mars

on my birthday

Will I see

a red

dot

in the

sky?

What if I’m

the only alien

on the planet?

What if

I’m really

from Mars?

The last

Martian

gazing

at my

former planet

missing home

looking

up?

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