{"id":9943,"date":"2023-01-31T04:04:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T04:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=9943"},"modified":"2023-01-31T04:04:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T04:04:36","slug":"because-we-steer-by-dead-stars-by-claire-scott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/because-we-steer-by-dead-stars-by-claire-scott\/","title":{"rendered":"Because We Steer by Dead Stars by Claire Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Because We Steer by Dead Stars<\/h2>\n

by Claire Scott<\/p>\n

Because the earth\u2019s axis is tilted 23.5%
\nbecause Venus is forty-one million kilometers from earth
\nbecause the sun will boil our oceans in one billion years
\nbecause moon-blessed longings turn to cosmic dust
\nbecause I will soon redshift away, slipping through
\nan event horizon, moving at the speed of heartbreak
\nbecause I need to find the shape of me inside you
\nbefore I travel beyond the light
\nI reach for your hand<\/p>\n

Claire Scott is an award winning poet who has received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Her work has been accepted by the Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review, New Ohio Review, Enizagam and Healing Muse among others. Claire is the author of\u00a0Waiting to be Called\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0\u00a0Until I Couldn\u2019t.\u00a0<\/i>She is the co-author of\u00a0Unfolding in Light: A Sisters\u2019 Journey in Photography and Poetry.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Claire Scott is an award winning poet who has received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Her work has been accepted by the Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review, New Ohio Review, Enizagam and Healing Muse among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[462],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poems-about-stars"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t