Long Earth

Thinking
About day and night
In the spring surprise of
Noting
Blue light persisting
Layered
And
Dissolving in to dark
And yet the longer time
As Earth considers turning
Back
Leaning to favor
Days of planting in the northern
Half
While the southern part
Has winter

A cycle of
Waking
Hibernation
Still for a billion years
Two billions or so

Until a final pressing
To go away
To land upon another world
With the surprise
Discovery
Of its own planetary cycles 
And its seasons become
Our own

C L Couch


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