SELECTED POEMS

I Watch the Stars Go Out

Perhaps love
is a view of stars
through the telescope of years
now aged,
no longer uncommitted
in chosen places,
nor fearful
of that strident moment
when light explodes
into a million shards of heart.

by Felix Cheong
from I Watch the Stars Go Out (1999)

 

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