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Spheres 

7/17/2015

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Pardon my space imagery
but I can never resist
the Renaissance notion
that we are each
a universe unto ourselves
& if the orbit of my metaphor
disrupts your ellipse
try to remember that someday
I’m likely to collapse
in upon myself.



first appeared in The Buffalo News Sunday July 4, 1993                                                
sold to Midnight Zoo in 94, unclear if actually published there
collected in Olives May 20, 1995    
reprinted in Images  May 2002
collected in Beneath the Greasepaint  12/29/03

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3/26/2021 12:55:38 pm

Great bloog post

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    • Book Reviews >
      • 'Sacrificial Nights'
      • Moon Facts by Bob Scholfield
      • What Stranger Miracles
      • Crowned: Sign of the Dragon Book 1
      • 'The Role of Lightning in Evolution'
      • 'Why Elephants No Longer Communicate in Greek' by Timons Esaias
      • Brief Encounters with My Third Eye
    • Flash Fiction Links
    • Prose >
      • "A Dwarf for Each"
      • Short Fiction Bibliography
      • "Standard Repair"
      • "Sense of Place, Sense of Mystery"
      • Intro - Come-on from the Horse on 7th Avenue
      • "No Sense Fighting"
  • The SCA
    • SCA Photos 1
    • SCA Photos 2
    • Precedence for Andreas Hak
    • SCA Persona
    • Offices Held in the SCA
    • SCA Writings >
      • Serenity: A History of Eastern Coronets
      • "The Origin of The Betting Man's Guide
      • "The New Newsletter"
      • Old Newsletters
      • "The New Newsletter"
      • "When the VOID Was One"
      • "The Hael's First Baronial Champions Event"
      • "Aftermeetings: An Excuse to Tell Svid Stories"
      • "The Origin of Aethelmearc's Ancestral Pelican Medallion"
      • Remembering Durlome Rakesh d'Mithnan (Dwarf)
      • Growth Chart of Kingdoms for the First 23 Years of the SCA
      • Doings... An incomplete and informal chronology of the earliest days of Aethelmearc
      • History of the East Kingdom
  • Something Like a Blog