beg from the young and daring
their closest of readings
when man was worthy, enabled;
before they fall away—
then pull them a farther way,
make them into the horizon
till their focus stretches, shifts
into greater distances,
and we can see an orbit's decay.
I love this. We do tend to talk about close reading as a heroic endeavor (to a fault)! But there's knowledge in our "fall"enness from this ideal. Distance is worthy, too.
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