Ellen Rachlin
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Sometimes the sun takes hours to shut down;
I go slower.
In that expansion of a celestial tilting,
I go slower.
...
is larger than now, certainly
than angels, the heft of talismans,
any pain or truth,
and more miraculous than miracles,
...
Theory cannot be tangible fact
like driving on I-95 to get to a lecture
on supernovae with pictures
of white dwarfs sucking mass,
...
We are together in a galaxy called Loss.
Because I know nothing other than time and place
and where to go to speak with you,
I invented one for you.
...
On the plaza, between four building markers
a man in bright uniform wields
the tools of his trade: broom and bag.
He leans in to gather tissues marked with tears,
...
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Ellen Rachlin is the author of Permeable Divide, Until Crazy Catches Me (Antrim House) , as well as two chapbooks - Captive to Residue (Flarestack UK) and Waiting for Here (Finishing Line Press) . She won the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Silver Award, and was a finalist in the Best Book Award and the New Women's Voices series. Her poems have appeared in various journals, anthologies, and books, including American Poetry Review, Granta, Literary Imagination, The Los Angeles Review, The Good Grief Journal, and The Eloquent Poem. She received her MFA from Antioch. She serves as Treasurer of the Poetry Society of America and spent her career in finance.)
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Relativity
Sometimes the sun takes hours to shut down;
I go slower.
In that expansion of a celestial tilting,
I go slower.
The Milky Way pushes its light years hulk
once around
each several hundred million years.
From birthday to ceremony,
season to remembrance,
time alters its spaces.
And the ducks cross Canandaigua Creek
as they did when I was ten,
counting them in their single line.
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