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
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.