Night’s music is bittersweet

tomorrow remains unpromised

Earth faces moon – all constant,

she turns her back in waves

stars observe, purr, and kiss

long-dead stellar corpses crooning

then putative silence – all vapor,

all dew upon a spider’s web.

Jack Little (b. 1987) is a British-Mexican poet, editor and translator based in Mexico City and Palma de Mallorca. He is the author of ‘Elsewhere’ (Eyewear, 2015) and is the founding editor of The Ofi Press: www.ofipress.com He was the poet in residence at The Heinrich Böll Cottage on Achill Island in the west of Ireland in July 2016.

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