Jeffree Skewes - Without stars

my map is yours

theirs and ours from ions and back

each night a mysterious wonder performance

blinking clarification summaries predictions proposals

before our eyes and within minds eyes forever maybe

a celestial choreographed dance

tracking and trailing like a perfume

it's fugitive subtleties enchanting shocking

revealing plotted calibrated and mapped

we wish upon these friends whom without we stray

when obscured by fog or smoke or clouds

or we're trapped-inside under roofs or rain

been under a log sleeping-in or just pie-eyed !

we easily forget divorce separate lose context

without night guides merely wander

but under our darken indigo twinkling awning

we're roped together somehow kindred

by science geometry and a cosmic geology

we see mysterious physics all ghosted

and soundless music notated

encrypted here is an ancient astrologic

inspiring stories heroes fables the xero

imagine these no more!

all the gods the myths the single specks in oceans

retelling performing orbiting ideas time-traveling

yes to miss one night sky

is just unlucky

three or four is ill-advised

any more dares misadventure...

a rudderless clueless disconnected existence

without stars

image: Night out / watercolor, ink on paper