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  • One night I dreamed I was locked in my Father's watch
    With Ptolemy and twenty-one ruby stars
    Mounted on spheres and the Primum Mobile
    Coiled and gleaming to the end of space
    And the notched spheres eating each other's rinds
    To the last tooth of time, and the case closed.

    John Ciardi (1969). “The Achievement of John Ciardi: A Comprehensive Selection of His Poems with a Critical Introduction”