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"I'm sorry," Elias said politely. He gestured vaguely at the sliding glass door. "I think I... I was just enjoying the view."

A: The most recent authorized version appears in Grace Chua’s 2023 collection (hypothetical title for this article: "The Second Before" )*. Check your university’s database or request it via interlibrary loan. It is also occasionally posted on Poetry Foundation . countdown by grace chua new

: At the end of the poem, she peers out of the window at the actual night sky, longing for "star-fields leaping light-years" where she can finally be "beyond time’s gravity". Key Literary Devices Extended Metaphor "I'm sorry," Elias said politely