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Esther Morgan
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Just because I’m no longer visibleto the naked eye
doesn’t mean
I’m not still here,
that some kind of life
isn’t viable.
Magnify, and you’ll discover
how I shadow my time
like that wobble of light
from a distant star
that proves the unknown
planet’s existence –
its year-long days,
its hypothetical water.
© 2014, Esther Morgan
Esther Morgan
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1970)
Esther Morgan is the author of three books of poetry, of which the third, Grace, was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize in 2011. Her poetry is subtle, quiet, delicately paced. Concerned with absences, small moments, things we barely register, her poems creep back up on the reader with lingering resonances.
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Just because I’m no longer visibleto the naked eye
doesn’t mean
I’m not still here,
that some kind of life
isn’t viable.
Magnify, and you’ll discover
how I shadow my time
like that wobble of light
from a distant star
that proves the unknown
planet’s existence –
its year-long days,
its hypothetical water.
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