one saturnian year

we walk at dusk 

heads thrown back 
to search the darkening sky 

for emerging pinpoints of light
tell-tale tracks of sunshine 

from distant spheres

mars first, shining orange 
high in the eastern sky
jupiter plays with our eyes
flashing like a diamond in the sky
till we are certain
and then we wait for saturn's
light to reach us

two walking along spadina
peering into the southern horizon 

 
two swinging through the sky
out of step enough that they will slip

in and out of each other's arms
in the next month

if you walk outside at dusk 

you can watch them emerge 

before the rest of the heavens shine

their night lights into our sky

by 6:30 those two are bright in the south-west

every night they swing closer

till Dec 21 when they may

(I've never seen this)

look like a single star

every night the stars 

sweep across our sky

as we spin

planets sweep through

on their own orbit

spinning into new

constellations

as we all fly 

around the sun

perhaps I am telling you things

you already know

but I am walking down spadina

as the colors rise and fade

with the setting of the sun

finding new patterns

in pinpoints of light

and he tells me 

we have been married for

one saturnian year