Stars

Laura Lush
From:   Blues & True Concussions: Six New Toronto Poets. Anansi, 1997.

The stars appear one by one
like small songs,
like small terrors
rattling bright in their cages.
The moon so skin.
Pale rice paper
awash in blood.

The wolf—
a brilliant blue flame
through the trees.

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