If I'm walking the streets of a city
covering every square inch of the continent
all its lights out
and empty of people,
even then
you are there...
Since you left me at eight I have always been lonely
star-far from the person right next to me....
From Franz Wright's "Flight"
I have felt "star-far" from people, events, the flow of life around me for years now. The circumference of my world turning smaller until it contains merely me and mine. Only I had not known to express the feeling as being "star-far".
crossings as in traversals, contradictions, counterpoints of the heart though often not..
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