Night closed my windows and <br />The sky became a crystal house <br />The crystal windows glowed <br />The moon <br />shown through them <br />through the whole house of crystal <br />A single star beamed down <br />its crystal cable <br />and drew a plough through the earth <br />unearthing bodies clasped together <br />couples embracing <br />around the earth <br />They clung together everywhere <br />emitting small cries <br />that did not reach the stars <br />The crystal earth turned <br />and the bodies with it <br />And the sky did not turn <br />nor the stars with it <br />The stars remained fixed <br />each with its crystal cable <br />beamed to earth <br />each attached to the immense plough <br />furrowing our lives<br /><br />Lawrence Ferlinghetti<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-plough-of-time/
