How Like the Stars

~ Michael James Fitzgerald

How like the stars
you keep counsel
with the night, plying
a pierceable darkness:

Brilliant and silent,
loyal as the sun, your

Far-off consolations are
joy enough to suffice
for longing and for now.

Michael James Fitzgerald

Published by Michael James Fitzgerald

I write, read, run, and ski.

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