At LastAuthor(s): Sharon BryanSource: The Iowa Review, Vol. 35, No. 1 (Spring, 2005), pp. 6-7Published by: University of IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20151957 .

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SHARON BRYAN

At Last

At last, a reason

not to want to live

forever: the stars

are winking out,

apparently, although it won't be apparent

to most of us any time

soon, one here,

one there, it will be

eons before noticeable

holes appear in Orion's

belt, for example, or

the Water-Bearer's

bucket, but just knowing

they're going out e

ventually, who would

want to stay on

under what will become

an unpunctuated

sky, just a few faint grains

of light, too few to make

anything of, nothing

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to wish on, hitch

our wagons to, nothing

to lift us out of ourselves, no pinpricks of hope

in our black box, no reason

to stay, no place to go.

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