Friday, November 13, 2020

Copernicus by Paul Tran

Copernicus

 
Who doesn’t know how
doubt lifts the hem of its nightgown
 
to reveal another inch of thigh
before the face of faith?
 
I once didn’t. I once thought I was
my own geometry,
my own geocentric planet
 
spinning like a ballerina, alone
at the center of the universe, at the command of a god
opening my music box
with his dirty mouth. He said
 
Let there be light
And I thought I was the light.
 
I was a man’s failed imagination.
 
Now I know what appears
as the motion of Heaven
is just the motion of Earth.
 
Not stars.
Not whatever I want. 



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