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Firmament

Ingrid Oliphant

Firmament...Say it out loud

Doesn't it sound

when it rolls from

the tongue

like something solid

underneath the feet


A place that births bursts of light, sweet green things?


The kind of thing or place that

holds deep, thick roots

steadier than waves

strong like stone?


Not like, say, filament

slender, graceful even

threads of lightness

that sounds like the word

heaven really means.

 
 
 

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