David A. Bart - poems
  • Intro
  • Home
  • Kingdom Come
  • Tunnel of Love
  • Exit Now
  • The Passion
  • Texas Education
  • Dumb Supper
  • Good Year
  • Toys
  • Saint Michael and the Devil
  • Invisible Knights
  • The Rain Gauge
  • Ponder
  • Remainder
  • Green Ghost
  • December 13th
  • Dedication
  • Prevailing Wind
  • Dreamland 1911
  • 10
  • On the Median
  • These Things Happen
  • White Water
  • The October People
  • Scene from a Moral Panic
  • Estrellita
  • Another Ending
  • What We're Dealing With
  • How Did the Foxes Die?
  • There was a Man
  • Bio. and credits
Good Year



We watched the buoyant oval lift
and drop on a thermal of April dusk.
An immense illumination.
A presage of other radiance bygone
or going out–porch light
starring a neighborhood game.
Bonfire flashing a wild skirt of freshmen.
Streetlight sprayed with moths
and the slick pitch of a bat.

It descended so low,
as if the wary moon had finally
allowed us to see its true self–
a gibbous, Japanese lantern.
A motorized prop wired with bulbs
and a fluttering propeller.
As it turned toward us
a woman climbed her lawnchair,
wishful hands clasped under her chin,
trying to see a man inside.



Cider Press Review, Vol.10, 2009
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