Satellites are orbiting the room
Satellites are orbiting the room
sending signals from afar.
We all want to be big, big stars
but our celestial navigation is marred
by terrestrial limitations.
Jack Conway’s poems have appeared in Poetry, The Antioch Review, The Columbia Review, Yankee, The Potomac and The Norton Anthology of Light Verse among others. He is the author of, My Picnic With Lolita and Other Poems published by North Country Press in 2004. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts in Dartmouth and Bristol Community College in Fall River.