Star Map
– after a line in Kazim Ali’s poem “Sleep Door”
I am the star map tonight
hold me up to the moon’s light
take note of my marks
space coordinates
nebulae, galaxy, quasar
I will guide you in the darkness
past the layered atmosphere
trapping the heat of life
past the silent moon
circling forever in her phases
lessening then growing
over and over again
past the far flung asteroid belt
where one carries my child’s name
past the icy lump we call false-planet
follow me into the universe
where only you and I will remain
Pamela Olson, 4/23/08
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