{"id":3835,"date":"2023-04-21T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/spire\/?p=3835"},"modified":"2023-04-21T09:01:36","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T13:01:36","slug":"kunz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/spire\/2023\/04\/21\/kunz\/","title":{"rendered":"Art & Poetry Series: Stellar field 1, Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Tanja Kunz<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Stellar field 1<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Stellar field 1, oil on canvas, 36″x36″<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n

Night<\/h3>\n

Back in the beginning, when the world exploded,<\/span><\/p>\n

the winged,
\n<\/span>the two and four legged,
\n<\/span>the rooted and the swimming,<\/span><\/p>\n

we were all specks, suspended in the galaxy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tiny lights, they say.<\/span><\/p>\n

Around then, or not long afterwards, gravity came to be.<\/span><\/p>\n

And with it, that particular way we fall.<\/span><\/p>\n

And so things started to fall, as they do now,<\/span><\/p>\n

into place.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was also around that time, or not long afterwards,<\/span><\/p>\n

when the thing that holds us all together somehow,<\/span><\/p>\n

came into being.<\/span><\/p>\n

And in this way, things did.<\/span><\/p>\n

They started to come together somehow.<\/span><\/p>\n

But that was a long time ago, so we humans, we often forget.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because we often do forget these sorts of things.<\/span><\/p>\n

Like how things come together.<\/span><\/p>\n

And when we forget, we set out searching, with our only human longing.
\n<\/span>Yearning for forgotten pieces.<\/span><\/p>\n

And sometimes in this ecstasy, we end up there again,
\n<\/span>staring at the sky and those tiny specks of light,<\/span><\/p>\n

trying to remember.<\/span><\/p>\n

And it seems, in the moments when we do,<\/span><\/p>\n

it\u2019s the stars, casting their light familiar,<\/span><\/p>\n

who remember our lost pieces,<\/span><\/p>\n

home.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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