SUBJECT>Re: Common Lights POSTER>Si mon EMAIL> DATE>1112302955 IP_ADDRESS>199.184.88.166 PREVIOUS>85697 NEXT> IMAGE> LINKNAME> LINKURL>

for me, the two strongest lines in this poem are the first and last. and maybe that's the way it should be. but what's in the middle of this is, in my opinion, too vague to move me the way the poem should. I think the first line would make a wonderful title.

: Common Lights
: (To Aimee)

: Considering stars and bodies
: distance becomes meaningless;
: a thousand miles and thousand lifetimes
: will not bring us nearer to the heavens.

: And my skin, being even an inch
: away from yours, creeps from the cold
: of the outer vacuum, my body lost
: among the stars we will never touch.

: And no matter how much the poet in me
: rebels at the thought, I know the words
: can never bridge that distance,

: just create pretty illusions and digital dreams
: of our common lights a bit more near us,
: like shooting stars of ones and zeros.