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Being a passenger on the red-eye

August 10, 2011
By amethyst_novelist13 GOLD, Lake Oswego, Oregon
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"You have to write whichever book it is that wants to be written. And then, if it's going to be too difficult for adults, you write it for children." Madeleine L'Engle

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is knowing that I am one of those
blinking lights in the sky,

and somewhere a child is looking up

wondering

why some stars have colors like Christmas lights
and move through the sky like dragonflies
trailing antennae through
reflecting pools.

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