Points and Lines

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Points and Lines was published in Huxley's short story collection, The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems in 1918.
Points and Lines
Hubble image of RS Puppis, Cepheid pulsating star, 2016

Points and Lines, iNSTANTS in the quiet, small sharp stars, Pierce my spirit with a thrust whose speed Baffles even the grasp of time. Oh that I might reflect them As swiftly, as keenly as they shine. But I am a pool of waters, summer-still, And the stars are mirrored across me; Those stabbing points of the sky Turned to a thread of shaken silver, A long fine thread.


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