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Dark-sky Society

By Ailish Hopper

Each time, Kenny says
With Love,

I look at you, I see
          Princess      Diana

His skin ginger,
          mine, peony,

And, between us now,

          The color line,

No static beam

---More like
Light-bomb;

          Blanching

The     star-
          Dark,

Our lumen-
          Natural
Added: Wednesday, July 2, 2014  /  Used with permission.
Ailish Hopper
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Ailish Hopper is the author of the chapbook Bird in the Head (Center for Book Arts), and the book Dark~Sky Society (New Issues Press, 2014). Individual poems have appeared in APR, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Tidal Basin Review, and many other places. In addition to page poetry, she performed with the poetry band Heroes are Gang Leaders, and her essays have appeared in Boston Review, A Sense of Regard: Essays on Poetry and Race, and other places. She’s received support from MacDowell Colony, Maryland State Arts Council, and Yaddo. She lives in Baltimore.

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