4-20-2020

God's Rose

4/20/2020

Written after reading an article about the orbit of the star s2 around the massive black hole Sagittarius A.

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.