Astronomica

cassia · January 2004

Nestled on a seaside sand dune
the soft windy sunset and then,
night coming in across black-glossed
gentle waves, the phosphorescence
of foam play, the tall sparse
grass tufts

somewhere, a trace of a moon
a distant ship
and the giant star, our star
the star of the sea
Jupiter, glittery
as

a diamondy gold-sugared
gum drop

the confections
of the universe unfolding
deliciously, deliriously

and how grateful, how
wonderful,
to have evolved this far

through the crisscrossing
of stars, pains and dreams
to have arrived

at this perfect moment
of pollywogs and papillons