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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Poem-A-Day: Wyn Cooper, Mars Poetica

Academy of American Poets

July 18, 2012

Today's poem is copyright © 2012 by Wyn Cooper. Used with permission of the author.

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    Mars Poetica
    by Wyn Cooper

    Imagine you're on Mars, looking at earth,
    a swirl of colors in the distance.
    Tell us what you miss most, or least.

    Let your feelings rise to the surface.
    Skim that surface with a tiny net.
    Now you're getting the hang of it.

    Tell us your story slantwise,
    streetwise, in the disguise
    of an astronaut in his suit.

    Tell us something we didn't know
    before: how words mean things
    we didn't know we knew.

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