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From the Plane

Anne Marie Macari

It is a soft thing, it has been sifted   
from the sieve of space and seems   
asleep there under the moths of light.   

Cluster of dust and fire, from up here   
you are a stranger and I am dropping   
through the funnel of air to meet you.

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Poem copyright ©2008 by Anne Marie Macari and reprinted from "She Heads into the Wilderness," Autumn House Press

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Submitted by Drone232 on July 24, 2022

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Scheme XXX XXX
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 242
Words 53
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 3
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Anne Marie Macari

Anne Marie Macari is the author of She Heads into the Wilderness (Autumn House Press, 2008). She lives in New Jersey. more…

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