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Poems

Night Vision

‘Night Vision’ a poem by Stephen Edgar

by Stephen Edgar •
September 2003, no. 254

Those towering and vertiginous heights
           Of night
At which you crane your next to gaze
    (And Dante saw ascending,
           Ablaze
In sphere on sphere of crowded light,
    Beyond a mortal sight’s
Earth-shadowed powers of apprehending),

 


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