Great Regulars: The counterbalance is land, or "home's street."

To extend the water comparison further, he then imagines the moon also moving within an oceanic sky. He suggests the moon is love, "beauty," and mystery--all universal associations. The "small bird" and the moon both share the same fate as humans: all are "condemned" to struggle in "the open sea." Home is the familiar, and the sky is the natural world with all its powerful, uncertain forces.

[by Michael Poage]

Pelagic

from Denise Low: Ad Astra Poetry Project: Michael Poage (1945 - )

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