in the night sky
will soon be satellites,
the headline reads
though the head knows
soon already
came and went.
It’s all the same
if you fix your eyes
upon what’s brightest,
erasure to fashion
a dipper or a spear,
a distraction or a life.
Maya C Popa’s new collection of poetry, “Wound Is the Origin of Wonder”, will be published by Picador in June
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This article appears in the 10 May 2023 issue of the New Statesman, What could go wrong?