(1951 / Cincinnati Ohio)

Poems of Steven Federle

1. A Different Wisdom -new- 5/15/2013
2. A Good Day 1/30/2011
3. A Moment 1/30/2011
4. A Prophecy 8/10/2011
5. A Simple Question 4/14/2012
6. A Warm Morning 9/10/2011
7. A Windy Day 7/16/2011
8. Abaude: City Rain 3/27/2011
9. Abaude: Morning Rain 1/30/2011
10. Abaude: Night into Morning 1/30/2011
11. Abaude: Wake Up and See 4/20/2013
12. Abaude: Your Eyes 6/3/2012
13. Abernathy Road Roundabout 7/16/2011
14. Above Berkeley (For Connie) 2/11/2011
15. Abscissa of the Soul 6/26/2012
16. Advent Song 12/4/2011
17. Advent Wreath 1/30/2011
18. Advice to a Madman 11/4/2011
19. Advice to Candidates 2/5/2012
20. After the Massacre 7/21/2012

Gravity

We walk secure, grounded, heavy, oblivious,
safe from perplexing weightlessness,
unlike Life Savers candies on Atlantis spinning theatrically
as glittering Las Vegas floats beneath,
or those rusty spherical droplets
of Tang, humorlessly drifting over the Indian Ocean;
we are safe even as Kubrick's treacherous computer,
tenderly releases the cradled voyager to drift reeling away,
receding, smaller and smaller, no longer a man,

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