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Variable Stars
Lauren Camp

the stars in their big emporium
seem to stay
valiant but the distance
from where I am to you
who holds the center
of my heart keeps lighting up
and fizzing out and that’s part
of the evidence
that I’m light years away

—
Lauren Camp is the author of five books, most recently Took House (Tupelo Press). Honors include the Dorset Prize and finalist citations for the Arab American Book Award, Housatonic Book Award, and North American Book Award. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, and Poet Lore, and her work has been translated into Mandarin, Turkish, Spanish, Serbian, and Arabic. She lives in New Mexico, where she teaches creative writing to people of all ages.

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