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To: Condor who wrote (160)	3/5/2002 9:59:46 AM
From: Poet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1203

Here's the updated version (poets are notorious tinkerers). And thank you, Condor. The Meteor Shower In the morning's empty hours, before dawn reduced the world to a familiar size, before the Sunday paper slapped our fieldstone walk like a judge rendering a verdict, we stood on the dock as the heavens spit stars over the water. How much did it matter that the comet had passed nine years before the founding fathers wrote our country into being? We were tardy witnesses, our eyes sweeping from the restless canopy to the general store, home of Ice-cold Ice. Meteors shot through Orion's belt and blazed yellow and ghost-green trails that shimmered for seconds--or was it centuries? Time accordioned outward to its fullest, a breath held at the point of pause before contracting. We turned toward home and saw suspended above our house a fiery arc, a comma, as if to say This is where we live, and when.