Nathan Coppedge Poems

Black may in some sense contain stars like dust—

Red may contain extra heat—
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(Higgs for everyone) .
Solid shapes, like the Higgs.
Dark surrounding shapes, partly clear, the approach to denser matter.
(Take a fringe of the julipse tree) .
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A box of tissues is soaked through
A pink hand written, unbesmirched
by any deeply blue
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Planches of starlight, creases of fear
Worry the lost, teach the year
Press the cost, preach the air
Formula lost, year to year
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Like a lark in a cage
—Like a shot
Between the eyes—
Where an old woman dies
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1.

Contingency.
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'Dreams don't die, they died a long time ago.'

We left the red out because we're getting edited out,
Someone's snorting bone-dust
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Suffice a cubic wood
a step beyond less real
the moment all itself
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To humans, things fall in pairs
This supplies an order to the world
Supplanting what we most desired
Supplanting God’s symmetrical absurd
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The commissioned road widens /

As though paved by gold
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