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February 23, 2022
An amazing debut from an American powerhouse.
June 27, 2009
THE NIGHT : PAUMA VALLEY
While the astronomers on Palomar
were looking away
imagining black holes and collapsing stars,
frost was forming on the aluminum dome
of the observatory.
Moonlight rocked in avocado leaves
smudge pots blackened the orange groves
and in the brushy bottom land along the river
three men hunted:
One at the wheel of a pickup
another working the spotlight
and the third braced in the back
with a .22 automatic
firing at the light struck eyes
of rabbits.
Cows crowded together
under a billboard
and a boy half sleeping
with a silk pillow between his legs
sang in a hush "Donna, Donna, Donna."
A man, who refused to go home,
sat on a barstool
wondering if all the blood
that had passed through his heart
would equal an hours rain
in the valley.
While the astronomers on Palomar
were looking away
imagining black holes and collapsing stars,
frost was forming on the aluminum dome
of the observatory.
Moonlight rocked in avocado leaves
smudge pots blackened the orange groves
and in the brushy bottom land along the river
three men hunted:
One at the wheel of a pickup
another working the spotlight
and the third braced in the back
with a .22 automatic
firing at the light struck eyes
of rabbits.
Cows crowded together
under a billboard
and a boy half sleeping
with a silk pillow between his legs
sang in a hush "Donna, Donna, Donna."
A man, who refused to go home,
sat on a barstool
wondering if all the blood
that had passed through his heart
would equal an hours rain
in the valley.
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