venus & jupiter align - digital art: ralph murre
Night
Music
by
Pat Tompkins
The
quarter moon rests in telephone wires,
a
twilight clef sign. Jupiter aligns
with
Venus, sounding solo notes.
With
the sun offstage, other stars emerge
playing
the music of the spheres.
Windows
open, a car passes
an
airborne song. Radio waving,
I
slow dance in the high school gym
fifteen
again for an instant,
but
that tune’s now light-years distant.
~
first published in Astropoetica
