Ancient stars
we wish on
supernova.
Now, long dark,
they still twinkle
in the anthracite sky.
In this instance,
light speed time’s
a measure of distance.
Light takes longer
than earth’s existed
to catch our eye.
....
Boiarski has published for more than fifty years in small magazines and literary journals. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, The California Quarterly, The Rocky Mountain Review, Aspen Anthology, Indiana Writes, The Ohio Journal, The Minnesota Review, Green House, Handbook, as well as numerous other analog and online publications and several anthologies.
He earned a BA from The Ohio State University and an MFA from Goddard College, having graduated in the residency program now associated with Warren Wilson College. Most recently, his work was translated and featured in performance by Teatr Polski,and printed in Nowa Okolica Poetow, a Polish literary journal; OFF_Anthologie, an international journal published in London and Warsaw; and also The Tangled Bank, Love, Wonder & Evolution, an Australian Anthology honoring Darwin’s Bicentennial.
