Chicken Feet

carry me away,

beyond the cusp

of the hemisphere,

all the way back

to the start of time

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The start of time and the start of poetry are very tightly entwined. Whether you

subscribe to a big bang or the touch of a creator, either event yields images at

once breathtaking and diffi cult to describe, in other words poems.

Still, we try our best. From the most renowned poet to the youngest schoolchi...