Sight Lines by Arthur Sze

Author:Arthur Sze
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 2019-11-17T16:00:00+00:00

—The plutonium waste has been hauled to an underground site—

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1 WINTER STARS

You will never forget corpses wrapped in flames—

at dusk, you watched a congregation of crows

gather in the orchard and sway on branches;

in the dawn light, a rabbit moves and stops,

moves and stops along the grass; and as

you pull a newspaper out of a box, glance

at the headlines, you feel the dew on grass

as the gleam of fading stars: yesterday you met

a body shop owner whose father was arrested,

imprisoned, and tortured in Chile, heard

how men were scalded to death in boiling water;

and, as the angle of sunlight shifts, you feel

a seasonal tilt into winter with its expanse

of stars—candles flickering down the Ganges,

where you light a candle on a leaf and set it

flickering, downstream, into darkness—

dozens of tiny flames flickering into darkness—

then you gaze at fires erupting along the shore.

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