By Avalon Kelly
Look up at the setting sun
A thousand colors turn to one
Yellow, purple, orange, pink
Now an inky black
If you focus
Maybe you’ll see
The outline of the stars
The freckles of the universe’s masterpiece
Scattered
Clustered
Constellated
Can you see them
I can
Soon the lights of earth go out
Silence
But for your breathing and the trees
And the moon illuminates your quiet face
Falling
Fast
Asleep
Amid the
Luminous darkness
Roaring silence
Of the world
At this late hour
The moon looks down from her heavenly perch
And smiles
At you
Her child
Deep in slumber