Kathleen M Quinlan
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Flight from the Countryside

World Bank: For the first time in history, more than half of the world’s people live
in cities.  
 

I miss the stars the most.
Not that first twinkling
nursery-rhyme character
wished upon at the bedroom
window in the still-twilight blue.

Not the familiar patterns – imagined
silver dippers and rescued sisters outlined  
in connect-the-dots on charcoal skies. 

Not even Perseid’s meteors – August nights
on a blanket in the back yard, wondering
which way to turn to catch
the next stolen kiss.  
 
But, the unbounded arch of the Milky Way –
its band of scattered moon-dust
spilling over me the night
the peepers announced spring. 

These riches were in our grasp –
a trillion diamonds
bequeathed rom heaven.

And we left it all behind. 



 
Appeared in Bloodroot Literary Magazine, 2013
© Kathleen M Quinlan 


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