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night light

Reading for pleasure in the evening

Comfortable on my couch

A bright lamp light shining over my shoulder

How ironic to be reading about light pollution.

Looking out the front window beside the couch

I can see the moon for the hour when it rises

Tracing an angle as it moves upwards

Seen here from 41 degrees north latitude.

I see the moving lights from many airplanes

Coming towards me taking off from LaGuardia

Gliding past me approaching Newark touch down

Tracing paths to and from JFK and Teterboro.

Here so close to Times Square there is no true night

Darkness like people knew before electric lights.

The night sky glows pink under the clouds

And the streetlight glare on my block blinds me.

Oh I can still see Venus and the brightest stars

Register faintly in Orion and the Big Dipper.

And sometimes I see Jupiter or another bright spot

But the rest of the night sky is invisible.

Seeing the satellite photos of earth at night

Getting brighter and brighter year by year

This is the big picture we humans create

Quite lovely when seen from the distance.

The security spot lights on my neighbor’s house

Signal his fear of the darkness up close

And personal trespass into my bedroom

Eyes closed dreaming of deep dark sleep.

We have a cabin 150 miles from here

That’s off the grid and far from the road.

That’s a place to go back in time

And see the millions of stars in the Milky Way.

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