In the Next Galaxy
Things will be different.
No one will lose their sight,
their hearing, their gallbladder.
It will be all Catskills with brand
new wrap-around verandas.
The idea of Hitler will not
have vibrated yet.
While back here,
they are still cleaning out
pockets of wrinkled
Nazis hiding in Argentina.
But in the next galaxy,
certain planets will have true
blue skies and drinking water.
Credit
From In the Next Galaxy by Ruth Stone. Copyright © 2002 by Ruth Stone. Used by permission of Copper Canyon Press. All rights reserved.
Author
Ruth Stone
Ruth Stone, whose poetry collection In the Next Galaxy (Copper Canyon Press, 2002) received the National Book Award, was the recipient of the 2002 Wallace Stevens Award given by the Academy of American Poets.
Date Published
01/01/2002