September 25: Sleeping on an island

Under the Milky Way

I walk slowly home

happy and unafraid.

 

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July 29: After dark

at home after dark
we hear geese flying over
there's Saturn and Mars

July 27: Backroads

Driving home after dinner

fawn in the headlights,

stars out the window.

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June 21: Shortest night

Midsummer's Eve--

dancing fireflies in the grass,

Saturn's glorious rings.

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April 16: Spring night

At the end of a long drive:

chorus of peepers,

stars bright as flowers.

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September 11: Night light

This is a small town, but even here, living as we do across from a street light, we rarely get to fully appreciate the night sky in all its starry glory. So after dinner with friends who live on a farm out in the country, it was such a thrill to look up on the way to the car and enjoy such a wide, clear view of the night's stars.

 

Night sky above a dirt road--

we pick out Polaris,

now it all makes sense.

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August 11: Perseids

Perseid meteor shower--

wishes ready,

we watch together.

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June 18: Approaching Midsummer's Eve

church bells ring nine times

still too light for stars

daisies on the lawn instead

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February 18: On the phone

Unexpected phone call--

out the window a planet

stares back at me.

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January 29: Dark night of the soul

Driving, exhausted.

Terry Gross discusses religion.

A jet trail pierces Orion.

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January 21: Home

Home from work

Orion rising over the house

Our place in the galaxy

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