Clear and Crisp
Poetry[Image: Detail from Ai Weiwei: Fault Line. A marble replica of twisted iron rebar pulled from one of the schools that collapsed in the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake (Rebar and Case, 2014). Photograph by Ian Boyden. My thanks to David Axelrod and Jodi Varon, editors of basalt, who first published this poem along with several others on June 1, 2018.]
爽
Clear and Crisp
The dictionary fell open,
a single word offering
autumn light.
Then, as now,
her name cradles the broken
and unbroken lines of divination.
—Ian Boyden
June 1, 2016
Constellations of Humanity
Each luminous dot on this map represents one reader of this poem. As the number of readers increases, the stars begin to cluster and form an increasingly detailed constellation. My intent is to show how brightly a poem glows across our world. I welcome your light.
