Some days we can see Venus in midafternoon. Then at night, stars

separated by billions of miles, light traveling years

 

to die in the back of an eye.

 

Is there a vocabulary for this—one to make dailiness amplify

and not diminish wonder?


Kaveh Akbar Do You Speak Persian? ⬩ Calling a Wolf a Wolf

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