radiant Taj—and many more spinning a saga of
astounding brain work and deft craft.
Have they lost out on the eye?
Is the mind emptied out of the search
….. almost busted by the nauseating
reality of perceived nothingness?
Is earth that flew out of the Bang
caught in the web of climate disorder,
stock busts, cultural atrophy?
Come Red Star! Let the fatigued eye
scan your fiery empty plains;
And put up a makeshift shanty
to rest the limbs; then take a deep
breath to look for a green horizon.
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