Blue Sky
The blue sky is
not a ceiling
that we can
write upon with white chalk
but only a blue
or gray or golden moment,
which records
our passage through time.
These rare
moments of closing
when things,
like people,
come together
only briefly,
fearful for those fleeting seconds
when they need
one another.
The blue sky is
not a ceiling.
The blue sky
surrounds us always.
The blue sky
reaches to the ground.
Passing but not touching
Meeting but not
greeting
Looking but not
seeing
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Blue
Sky
was written in 1989 and was published as a hand printed book, with six of Poleskie's linocuts, in an edition of fifty by the College of Art and Design,
Loughborough, UK, when he was artist-in-residence there. A copy of this book is
in the rare book collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
This poem has recently been published in, From the Finger Lakes, a Poetry Anthology, edited by Peter Fortunato and John Hopper. The book can be ordered here: https://www.amazon.com/Finger-Lakes-PoetryAnthology/dp/1681111438/ref=sr_1_2s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1477443833&sr=1-2&keywords=From+the+Finger+Lakes
Stephen Poleskie’s writing, fiction, non-fiction and poetry has appeared in numerous journals in the USA and in Australia, Czech Republic, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, the Philippines, and the UK; as well as in five anthologies, and been three times nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He has published five novels and two books of short fiction. Poleskie has taught at The School of Visual Arts, NYC, the University of California/Berkeley, and Cornell University, and been a resident at the American Academy in Rome. He writes a regular column for Ragazine.cc. Poleskie lives in Ithaca, NY. website: www.StephenPoleskie.com
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This poem has recently been published in, From the Finger Lakes, a Poetry Anthology, edited by Peter Fortunato and John Hopper. The book can be ordered here: https://www.amazon.com/Finger-Lakes-PoetryAnthology/dp/1681111438/ref=sr_1_2s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1477443833&sr=1-2&keywords=From+the+Finger+Lakes
Stephen Poleskie’s writing, fiction, non-fiction and poetry has appeared in numerous journals in the USA and in Australia, Czech Republic, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, the Philippines, and the UK; as well as in five anthologies, and been three times nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He has published five novels and two books of short fiction. Poleskie has taught at The School of Visual Arts, NYC, the University of California/Berkeley, and Cornell University, and been a resident at the American Academy in Rome. He writes a regular column for Ragazine.cc. Poleskie lives in Ithaca, NY. website: www.StephenPoleskie.com
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