Somewhere amongst star shards &
volcanic outcroppings I couldn’t
see against a 5:00 am November
sky the fm evaporated
it was east of Jordan Valley it
didn’t happen all at once the
signal dispersed across
depths & distances & ghostly
sagebrush in the headlights almost
100 miles from daybreak
a diner’s unlit windows
dark in the darkness
fractured constellations broken yellow
line invisible
cattle moving across the rangeland
a sodium light a semi truck’s
enormous exhalation
a broken yellow
line the star shards south a-
bove California a
stone pinging the windshield a
star fragment chip the
distance between constellations
I could hold that in my hands
Jack Hayes
© 2010
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