ASTERISM

Asterism


The star problem
how to prevent lights
of vastly different ages
from mixing with the present.

Maybe a canopy
over the forest
by dark spiders woven
if we find
woven densely
a giant blindfold
who would stand there all night
holding it.

And moonlight?

No way to protect
the ocean from starlight
no canopy big enough
to anchor all the shores
until fish have eyelids.

Maybe best
to seep it in
falling through ocean,
resurfacing clouds,
coloring rain,
drunk, bathed in,
glowing in tombs,
helping dirt into roots,

each one
born in a corner.