Ray DiPalma
Obedient Laughter
Otis Books 2014
Italo Calvino
Collection of Sand
Houghton Mifflin 2013
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from Obedient Laughter
At first when the meteor showers began
You met more and more people on the streets
At all times of day eager always to share their
Thoughts prompted by a discrete sense of conjectured
Outcome. And often when three or four had gathered
Shouts of "mine" would be heard — seizing and
Then contriving a moment of personal clarity from
What was a mysterious abundance. But then as
The showers continued day after day and their trajectories
Seemed to alter fewer and fewer people were there to
Encounter and hear bark their claims at the sky
As most now began to take shelter indoors.
RAY DIPALMA
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