on our backs

on the ground

in a dark sky town

 

you watched as I pointed

and cast lines among the stars,

 

telling stories to pull them to us from the deep;

 

with fingertips full of starlight

I turned to you and dabbed flashes,

 

tracing golden paths to shine upon your face...

 

the indelible vision of stardust

I once touched still remains--

 

a ghostly strobe forever burned

upon my eye to keep aflame

this lonesome traveling light.