from Stars in a Spring Night Sky (a collection of a dozen star poems) copyright 1966 by Tracy Marks In the Beginning God formed the night sky from navy blue felt and pinned it up with silver stars and a golden thumbtack moon. I know. God told me. Yet when I told the scientist, he laughed. Piercings The eternal night sky is pierced by a thousand pins of stars and an unpredictable thumbtack moon, Yet night after night it survives, ensconced in everlasting glory. Perhaps the pain has taught it to endure. A Thousand Stars Though scores of stars lightly spangle the navy blue expanse of sky, tonight there is no moon. How selfish I am, queen of a thousand stars, crying because the moon isn't mine. |