How to Hide the Milky Way

Sunlight is simplest,
one star overruling the rest.

Between dusk and dawn,
customary methods serve:

fire, fog, fumes, full moon
to flood the river of stars.

Or stay within city limits,
shielded by electric glare.

Avoid wilderness, desert,
the star-strewn ocean.

If all else fails, look down.
Heed not his siren call.

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Mary Soon Lee was born and raised in London, but has lived in Pittsburgh for thirty years. She is a Grand Master of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, and three-time winner of both the AnLab Readers' Award and the Rhysling Award. Her latest poetry book, "How to Navigate Our Universe," answers vexing questions such as "How to Surprise Saturn" and "How to Survive a Black Hole." She hides her online presence with a cryptically named website (marysoonlee.com and an equally cryptic Twitter account (@MarySoonLee).