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When the Stars Come Out a Billion Miles Away
It was cool the night I stole away. My naked feet
tiptoed over fissured asphalt, buzzing skin pressed
between stolid cracks like how our living room
illuminated the slumped hillside. Here, our house is
ablaze with mercury windows and humming generators and
the time that brother slipped and splashed bright red paint
across the doorstep. Here, the heartbeat is waning,
drowned by the gentle rustle of craning pine needles.
I am guided by the hair upon my legs –
guided from uneven tarmac to moonlit grasslands to silted shores –
guided until stupored vines outline inky carpets.
I feel their breathlessness: stiff like the ripple of daylight hours,
shimmering like the reflection in my pupils,
whispering as we unite. And now we wait.
I watch as they float to the surface in pinpricks of effervescence
that fizzle with the truth of a billion mile journey.
I follow as they train their glow upwards, pay recognition
to forefathers that spit them into existence
moon, after moon, after moon.
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Arthur Sadrian has been an avid writer and novelist since his crayon days. He has written over a dozen novels, novellas, novelettes and poetry books by his own initiative and has been published in literary magazines such as Beltway Quarterly, Down in the Dirt and Teen Ink. He has also served as a Junior Editor on Polyphony Lit, Chief Content Officer at a startup, Copy Editor of his school’s yearbook committee and is alumni of the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio.