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Is this the Universe?

I can’t believe it’s been a year

when it feels like ten

like a slow dance my mother told me to take.

But the sun sets like a lonely star

wanting to get back

to some galactic love scene, we can’t begin to understand.

Trees learned to live in space before humans.

We experience space everyday

but our skin only darkens

and our eyes swint

while the bones warm without boiling our marrow.

It’s been one trip around the sun

and I only know less about the universe

then I did before.

History repeats like a vinyl record completing its last song.

History repeats as often as parents cry over their children.

Searching for an escape from misery only leads to mystery

like a melting paradox wax candle burnt by the divine.

Paul Ruth

Paul Ruth is a teacher and writer from Michigan with a M.A. in English. His poetry has appeared with

Silver Birch Press, Indolent Books, and The Literatus. He has also written two novels.

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