Stars Climb Girders of Light
By Bert Meyers
Stars climb girders of light.
They arrange themselves
in the usual place,
they quit before dawn,
and nothing’s been done.
Then men come out.
Their helmets fill the sky;
their cities rise and fall
and men descend,
proud carpenters of dew.
Man brief as the storm,
more than five feet of lightning,
twisted and beautiful.
Man made like his roads,
with somewhere to go.
Notes:
“Stars Climb Girders of Light” was originally published in The Dark Birds (Double Day and Company, 1968) and is reprinted with permission of Daniel Meyers. For more information about Bert Meyers, please visit bertmeyers.com
This poem is part of the portfolio “Bert Meyers: A Gardener in Paradise.” Read the rest of the portfolio in the January 2023 issue of Poetry.
Source:
Poetry
(January 2023)
