SMALL BLAZE
Asterisk—little star—superscript
implies:
look below from its lofty perch
beside the word’s letter cliff
precarious before the page’s margin chasm
or jungling fall through ink to
a sublunary or infernal region
where lies its lower twin, lording over
diminutive denizens swarming in
the morass below
Then back—ascend—to the favored
field, edified by your guiding light
that plummeted us into the detailed depth
from which we might arise, to higher
heights than we had known
before meeting your pharos fire in
that crowded firmament of the page proper
where there’s always space space
for even more blaze
-- John Zedolik