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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature
Issue 31: Jan. 2026
Poem: 53 words
By Gary S. Rosin

Replacing the Sky

 
The sky your eye 
sees is not the sky. 
You don’t see 

your eye dart, 
sample the sky, 
shapes, frequencies. 

You don’t see 
your brain assemble 
pieces, projections, 

filter everything 
through the you 
you don’t see, 

present it all 
as the sky, the now, 
the you 

you take as real. 

 

Bio: Gary S. Rosin

 
 
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