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By Jack Joseph Smith
Caspian
A lady of the lake bent in a curve
past the stars, seems unusual, but
then you have watched her, the
praying and the gazing;
night after night, not a nestled
dream, rather a a direct life all
the way across to a recognizable
star, catch her as she takes a child
or sinks a seed; she turns from the
day looks up and cries and laughs
at the speck not thick glass has
ever seen before, yea beyond the
curve, again:the bend in time or
insight; not stars set in silence
in her, strange as a Cuban,
always speaking, yet not of herself