4/20/2020
For Helen. Thank you for lighting my way for thirty years.
It was an elementary fascination of mine
One that circled many times with overlays
Of ellipses using a pen and plastic gear.
Later in my life, a moebius strip would challenge
My lack of artistic talent to the point of no return.
Then, today, i read of a star that (over the past thirty
Years) scientists have traced and discovered its
Lines form a rosette around this sagittarian pit,
clover maze-like (over time) around that dark sun
Near our galactic center. Is this flower up above
Stonehenge mirrored? And what strange, unseen satyr’s
Sauterne accompanies God’s gift to us. This thought takes me aback:
Hurtling me through a time portal to your birth again
Starlit in my darkness, you began your orbit against all my fears.
