Standing in Bernie's Driveway with
the Garage Door Open
The night teaches us to be children,
to laugh at the slap-happy way
we smack the back of our necks
for biting mosquitoes.
When the bat almost kisses my cheek,
we have already located Europa.
We shuffle through the stars by eye,
then my turn at the telescope,
I see fireflies above the tree line,
dizzy from the earth, as they imitate
multiple moons. Maybe we ghost up
from a speaker in the garage,
what we love or hear can never be
that close, even when the lens
is fixed, twisted to hold a round surface
billions of miles away.
Russell Thorburn is one of the poets participating in the 2012 Get Lit! Festival. He will be part of the Poetry Salon on Friday, April 13 and will be opening for Ted Kooser at the Lincoln Center at 11:30 a.m on Sunday, April 15. Click here for more information about Russell.
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