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Monday, December 7, 2020

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