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A Place to Stand to Move the Earth

Jon Mathewson

Candlewood Lake, long ago, with summer
friends, noticing the moon climbing higher,
sliding across the sky,

friends whose names and faces have all faded
but the moon has come clearer, like the night
several years later

on the shores of Lake Champlain while looking
through a telescope, when I first really
noticed the detailed moon

and saw the shadows of craters floating
on the edge, and later on a lake float,
moon mirrored in water,

another summer, other summer friends,
seeing the special illuminations
and now tonight, drawn now

to a crater with amazing edges
in Mare Imbrium, while frogs croak loudly
by a pond, and now, now

looking at a map, learning the crater
is named Archimedes, perhaps a place
to stand to move the earth,

I see the less interesting neighbors
Autolycos and Aristillus, I
wonder, will they amaze

in future years, with friends known and unknown
gazing anew at the familiar, what
size will the lake be then?

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