Photo & Poem: Explain the Sky

 

Restless eyes behind closed lids, the

early hours lay flat, dull to these

scurrying thoughts. Rise to use

the bathroom and the dogs do not

stir. Pull on a barn coat and muck

boots to go out and walk the farm.

Keep to open ground, small steps

feel for uneven earth, head dropped

back to the view. Try to explain

the night sky, white clouds not quite

transparent arcing over mountains

in silhouette. The blue-black air cools

my feet, dense as water, lifting up

to the closest stars, those revealing the

stars behind them, and those stars,

the ones behind them. Hooves on

sand, gray horses move from the

shadows, ghostly outlines come clear

on a windless prairie. Stand close,

we are in free-fall, stilled by wonder.

…

Anna Blake at Infinity Farm

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