star treatment
we drove down
to the water
last night to see
the suggestion
of a star made
by two planets
closer than they
have been in
eight hundred years
close enough
to imagine a star
worth following
a beautiful night
on the shoreline
snow on the rocks
all of us spread
out staring in the
same direction
our instructions
were to look
southwest above
the horizon
forty-five minutes
after sunset
what we saw was
a band of clouds
a cosmic event
daunted by the
daily forecast
and then a star
a bright star not
epic but bright
and we decided
it was the one and
we drove home the
way we had come
Peace,
Milton
+5
Nice.
Take another look at your photo, Milton. There is quite an epic cross looming up above the little town, under that not so epic star.