Constellations: Poems From My Universe
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Richard Fireman believes a good poem should reflect both individual and universal perspectives and strives to do so in his work expressing his thoughts and feelings about both the microcosm of his lifes experiences and the macrocosm of the universe at large
Each of his poems are constellations in the sky of his life presented to the reader for interpretation and meaning Here is the world as I see it he says this is how it seems to me We are all in the same world looking up at the stars and this is my viewpoint one man in the vast unknowable universeConstellations are our attempt to make sense of the universeWe create patterns in the sky trying to understand what God might meanand write our stories as if we knewThese poems are my constellations The words are starsMay their light be a guide to find your way homeScapeAncestors called them constellationspopulated the heavens with storiesmade the giant wheel turnto human rhythms pushedthe wheel turning nightto day turning lifeto tales of gods and men and women turninginto gods conquering monsters as we conquerthe turning of time guidingthe wheel with imaginations surging pushthrough any black hole yet unthoughtofpast any edge at the end of any worldNew Worlds Need NamesThis time it was all going wellbut as we watched the TVshe said its going too wellsomethings going to happenAt the end of the show I got ready to leaveand she asked me to take her homeShe was home She didnt knowlike she didnt know I came to see her each weekor what a galaxy wasor how to tear a tissueShe couldnt understand how I knew shed be therehow Id know what planet to point the ship atAs I write this I hear on the newswe sent up a rocket to catch a piece of a cometOn the way home on the radio is a storyof snow falling on the living and deadOutside the car freezing rain is fallingLast week my mother said Pop is comingbut didnt know whose or the differenceIn the old days they were wise to make constellationswhen they didnt know where they were headingto recognize what was too far away