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Trudge of the Kings

A poem.

By Daniel Thompson
Illustration by Mary Haasdyk Vooys
January/February 2026
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A bitter trudge under star-faces.
The Pleiades mocking in their blueness.
The balance of Heaven swallowed whole
By the shocking bloom of the new light bursting.

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Illustration by Mary Haasdyk Vooys