From the Vaults: The Star Reader's Almanac

The Star Reader's Almanac

By Alexandra Seidel

The night is open like a book begging to be read

there is, in its starry letters, catabasis to be had

and the dream of falling up and under

the spell of sky

I bind my firmament to the night sky

and the night sky binds to all other things

above and beyond, links

fates together like soft wool to thread

Inscribed book of firmaments and fates,

rocks pages like cradles just beyond that strip

of horizon, trips black holes in words,

grudges in their own dark,

and longing in the distance between stars

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This poem actually began with the first line, which just happened to plant itself in my brain during a bout of creativity. The rest just fell into place around it like any constellation would.

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