Ordered Movement

Ordered Movement

Jan Wiezorek

Entering my eighth decade
is a feat of evenings for a world,

as small as you are, lighting my
own galaxy: a fly in mini-orbit,

planetary revolve, my glowing lover
of motion, clockwise or counter—

I have been exercising so I don’t
run into things, seeing how a bug

tumbles in light without bashing
its wings: ordered as movement

—and the secret of ourselves
is a body changing and still

spinning—no matter what
mind says about loss. I am

still more, and I still admire
this bug flying at bedtime

in a crystalline sphere to bless
my nightlight—and me.

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Jan Wiezorek
Poet

Jan writes from Michigan. His debut poetry chapbook, Forests of Woundedness, is forthcoming this fall from Seven Kitchens Press. Wiezorek’s poetry appears, or is forthcoming, in The London Magazine, The Westchester Review, Lucky Jefferson, The Broadkill Review, LEON Literary Review, and elsewhere. He taught writing at St. Augustine College, Chicago, and authored the teachers’ ebook Awesome Art Projects That Spark Super Writing (Scholastic, 2011). Wiezorek’s poetry has been awarded by the Poetry Society of Michigan.

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