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First, please accept my: First, please accept my sincere gratitude for the mention in the notes.  You know how much I admire your Poetry, and the importance it has for this site and those who part of the community.  In the four years that I have been following your Poetry, you have given me the great experience of seeing a real, vital, and formidable Poet expanding a work in progress into a complete collection.  I studied this at college---but only among the dead Poets.  I never dared hope to see it happen, in real time and living color, from a contemporary Poet, but you have privileged me to be able to watch happen right in my line of sight. The short lines with which you have formatted this poem give an impression of verbal agility, a choreography of concepts and images that only a Poet of your quality can compose and present.  The poem's center of gravity is in the stanza "Something ending, / Something just beginning"  to which, in the final two lines, you attach the simile of sunrise.  The beauty of the Cosmos is that is is always in process, something ending (when certain stars extinguish the last of their fusable atoms) and something beginning (star arising from the coalescence of atoms in great quantities until gravity is achieved, then leading to ignition).  You are a Cosmic Poet, and you bring to your readers not only a knowledge of these processes, but a reminder that our skies are not static, but are filled with all sorts of processes. You orchestrate the movement of the cosmic processes by describing them in present tense verbs, or verbs that are suffixed "-ing."  This strategy, coupled with the very short lines, bring a limber and athletic agility to the poem, and to the content it presents. Whenever you post a poem here, the posting is an event to be celebrated.  In a paradoxical way, each poem that you post is an expansion of your work, but also serves as a further introduction to your complete collection.  In my reading experience, I have only encountered two other Poets who present that same paradox:  Wallace Stevens and Vergil.  This poem proves that you have walked where they walked; not as a visitor, but as a fellow inhabitant of those rarefied and glorious dimensions.  The observations you bring back from there to present in your poems make all of our lives better.