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Home III

By Kelsey Peterson

From there, see planet earth

Rounded out before you, like the sea

Edged with light from the sun behind it

Its continents a deep navy with spangles of gold

Cities clustered into whiteness

Towns, flecks, lights finer than dust

The rim of sun thickens

And the planet’s edge burnishes tan

Across its surface, green emerges

A day begins, a day ends