Ed Skoog is the author of three poetry collections, Mister Skylight, Rough Day, and Run the Red Lights (Copper Canyon Press, 2016). His many awards include the poetry prize from the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society and the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

Little Song

by Ed Skoog

To leave you is like waking, or refusing to wake,

in that way the body has of haunting itself.

Returned to your hand, I’m the astronomer
unable to lower his telescope, or look away.

You’re the telescope, too. Close, you show me
far reaches that are themselves not even the beginning.

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