Orion
You shine hot as a sapphire
and serene as an emerald
strew your cerulean iridescence
and gold onto worlds
You are here
as subtle as the beats
of a creature’s wing
and like the crushing force
of iced glacial tides
You are here
forging your way
across the span
In a diverse sea
of compound symphonies
Your explosions of starlight
into the darkness
along the universe’s shore
there, fiery translucence
twirls with infinity
and shells finely sculpted
erupt from the cosmos sea
You are blaze and fire, Orion
a freewheeling grand bearer
joining with the ever-restless wind
to sever the dark and the void
creating new shorelines of light
in this exquisite, starry universe
“A lie is a very poor way to say hello.” — Edith Keeler
