Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Orion

The river birch in the center of my back yard
barely leaves a view of Orion in the morning sky.
It vies with city lights and stratus clouds
to turn my vision back to the fences, and decks
the pyramidal roofs and mounded oaks.

What about the origins of light draws me?
I seek the hunter's belt in the black sky,
search for the sword, the shield,
though I stumble to remember the names
of the nearby stars and constellations.

















http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Orion_constellation_map.png

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