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William Matthews - Outer Space
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If you could turn the moon 
on a lathe, you would 
because you are curious. 

And that would explain 
why the moon slivers, 
but explain it stupidly 

by not taking care 
to ask how the moon rounds. 
And so we go, stupid ideas 

for feet. The better to wander 
with, retort the feet, 
and what can you say, 

you who shaved those taut 
spirals from the moon, 
kinks of tightening light 

that fell away from your attention 
to your work growing smaller 
the better you did it? 

Threads on a screw, the worm 
of a corkscrew, the circular 
staircase to sleep.... 

Soon the moon is gone 
as far as it can go and still come back. 
Soon there`ll be no room 

for you: the moon will be all 
stomach, like a melon. 
The nest you`ve been meaning 

to leave is inside, aslosh with seeds. 
Around the outside you curl 
like the sky that goes away forever.
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