<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">There Is No Sky</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">No such thing.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">How can I say so?</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Look up.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">behind that mask of blue,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">blue’s masks of white and grey,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">lies a thing night’s black erases quite where</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">the transparency of invisibility occurs.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">How do I know?</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">I don’t.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Knowledge is a flimsy security.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">I just read on</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">until one reads to the end and arrives</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">to transparency equanimous and sheer.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Why should these poems crowd the air right now?</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">The wind of death will scatter them</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">where leaves decompose</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">to be beans and asters, weeds</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">and tantalizing deserts.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">I’m sorry if these words leave you sad or unconvinced.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">You do not read one of the The Immortals —</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">only the tiler of paving stones leading to a doorway —</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">leading through a garden he still finds pleasant —</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">do you? — toward an archway</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">before a door.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> -<span style="text-align: right;" class="">Bruce Moody</span></div></div></body></html>