Flying at Night

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      by Ted Kooser

      Above us, stars. Beneath us, constellations.
      Five billion miles away, a galaxy dies
      like a snowflake falling on water. Below us,
      some farmer, feeling the chill of that distant death,
      snaps on his yard light, drawing his sheds and barn
      back into the little system of his care.
      All night, the cities, like shimmering novas,
      tug with bright streets at lonely lights like his.

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