Pieced together in cobalt and lilac,
squares of crazy quilted sky fill in scraps of the day,
stitched with sharp needles of stars and comet tails,
held in place by old oaks outstretched arms,
reaching up until the twilight is pinned,
hemmed and skirted by dusk and sweet dreams.
Receding day spills across the western ridge
to get swept into the corners of night.
(revision)
transcendent
the little dog and I watch
the waxing crescent descend
transfigured
by the light of the evening star
translucent
in its beauty
transpire
coming to light
the descension of the pale crescent moon
transfiguration
sudden emanation of radiance
Venus in the western sky
Evening deepens into twilight.
Sky feathers of profound blue
and downy gray
fly swiftly
in a declaration of wind and wings.
Echoing across the night filled cove,
wild geese rise from the dark water.
out for an evening walk
only the sound of graveled footsteps
and the whippoorwills call
poor will, poor will
his plaintive cry
echoing across the cove
as the stars rise
in the darkling sky
curved
just so
hint of her smile
new crescent moon
***
New moon and Venus together in the winter sky. Blue so deep there is no word for the color. The sound of owls across the cove
the speculation of stars
and the light quantified by night
sky filled dome
of past suns
eases the burden
of moon and comets
fulfilling the temporal necessities
of lunar and solar days
dancing across the winter sky
glittering seven sisters
Pleiades
Field Guide to the Night Sky
Into the night
Seemingly empty space
Diminishing crescents
Move relative to one another
Arms that are increasingly spread
Intimately involved with the bodies
Physically connected
Mutual gravitational forces
To explore them in more detail
Stars, a handful of stars
Generations of stars
Edge of brightness
How bright it appears to us.
-These are phrases taken from the National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Night Sky pub 1991 to create a cento, a poem of passages taken from another source and rearranged into a new work for the DVerse prompt.
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