The Planets

William Keckler
1 min readFeb 5, 2019

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the exoplanets
turn in deadness
around stars
and are not years

we think of them
and their distance
we think
it’s strange to be

anywhere
language is not
piling up
absence

the planets
and the stars
do not feed
each other strangeness

as we orbit
there is no rest
even our buried
light shines up

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William Keckler
William Keckler

Written by William Keckler

Writer, visual artist. Books include Sanskrit of the Body, which won in the U.S. National Poetry Series (Penguin). https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/532348.

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