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Stars

David Sapp

I toss my blanket aside,
up from my tepid bed,
up from my familiar, warm lover
and peer through the cold pane;
in this black, crystalline night,
pulsing lights pierce the umbra;
the flaming stars seem closer.

Before her children, Osiris and Isis,
when she was young and slender and febrile,
the goddess of the cosmos arched
her naked body across the sky,
across an ancient, ebony desert,
her toes and fingertips stretching
across the horizon from Thebes to Giza;

at dusk she swallowed the sun
after he capered across her back
in a blazing, solar barque;
the stars, her vaulted firmament,
freckled her smooth belly
like glowing, jeweled bangles.

She blew fiery kisses
from afar, across a dark, frigid room,
but on this night, so near, she whispers,
scalding breath at my ear
burning stars pressed upon my cheek,
searing caresses upon my lips.

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