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Wherever you are in the universe
you’re at its center, cosmologists say.
My little mutt and I have made
a miraculous journey. Seeking
to chase a hare, flush a woodcock, to hear
a black and white warbler, hiding thrush,
exhaust all worry hiking hard,
we’ve stirred a flurry of daysleep moths.
We’ve found ourselves at an angle
where the summer moon is white and blue,
visible well into morning.
We’ve discovered ourselves at the center
of a universe that happens to be bordered
by cattails and highly annoyed blackbirds.
Author
Stuart Bartow teaches writing and literature at SUNY Adirondack, and also chairs the Battenkill Conservancy, an environmental non-profit.
His Teaching Trout to Talk: the Zen of Small Stream Fly Fishing, received the non-fiction award from the Adirondack Center for Writing, and a previous collection of poems, Einstein’s Lawn, is also published by Dos Madres.
