Susan Stewart
 
Dark the Star  
 

Dark the star  
deep in the well,  
bright in the still  
and moving water,  
still as the night  
circling above  
the circle of stone  
the darkness surrounds.  
Dark the wish  
made on the star,  
a true wish made  
on the water's image.  

There is no technique in the grass.  
There is no technique in the rose.  
  
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