This week we are driving with Weaver and she has set us in motion with the notion of the one word, “STAR”. As she says,
“Here are just a few suggestions: a star can be a twinkling celestial body; a sphere of gaseous material held together entirely by its own gravitational field; a planet; a comet; a meteor; a gold star on a good piece of work; any five pointed figure; THE Christmas star; Haley's comet; the star on the nose of a horse; Marilyn Monroe type star; the star in a school nativity play; an asterisk. Any of these or any other interpretation you wish to put on it.”
As I am wont to do, I have just let my mind free-fall and this was the result:
THE STARS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD
There is a sky
so far from here
where stars like sequins
light up the night and glow—
spangled, blinking
constellated
above the seas
that flow.
I want to be there
to stand on a rocky
promontory
fearing not,
the abyss below.
Eyes up!
Mesmerized
I want to feel
the emerald grass that
lies beneath my feet— and know
the shamrocks
will prevent me
from demise
and Sirius will
guide me
as I go.
