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10 May 2023

The NS Poem: All Points of Light

A new poem by Maya C Popa.

By Maya C Popa

Photo by Yifei Fang/Millennium Images

in the night sky 
will soon be satellites,

the headline reads
though the head knows 

soon already 
came and went. 

It’s all the same 
if you fix your eyes 

upon what’s brightest,
erasure to fashion

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a dipper or a spear,
a distraction or a life.

Maya C Popa’s new collection of poetry, “Wound Is the Origin of Wonder”, will be published by Picador in June

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This article appears in the 10 May 2023 issue of the New Statesman, What could go wrong?