The Evening Planet

clinging low near the horizon
is tiny Mercury
the lesser evening star
so hard to see
Remote and evanishing
it has been given the names
Hesperia, Liguria, Heliocaminus,
Hellas, Elysium, Ausonia
out of classic poets' dreams
rich with myth and music.
Mercury
speeding forever
into unmarked paths
in the heavens

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