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Night Sky Over The Mojave Desert, April 2007

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The sky is bright
With light and fire
Polaris, the north star
Thuban, the Egyptian north star
Remind me of the unending motion
Despite the quiet, the stillness

Sirius and Arcturus
Brilliant in their fields of darkness
Betelgeuse is a reassuring old friend
It’s warm color
And Rigel’s coolness
Together part of Orion
(The dominant though waning constellation
Now into Spring)

Castor and Pollux
Tied forever in Gemini

Kochab, Alkaid, Mirzam,
Capella, Algieba
Regulus, the foundation star of Leo
Alcor and Mizar, the double star
For the naked eye

The familiar matrix
Ursa Major
With Ursa Minor
Keeping company

Hydra’s head peering up
Past the Red Dwarf Wolf
Under Leo

Auriga, Bootes, Leo Minor
The dogs Canis Major
And Minor
With Puppis
Running behind

Messier’s objects
Are up there too
M42, the Orion Nebula
M41, M46, M33
All one hundred
Waiting to be
Discovered

Best of all
Are the star clusters
The Beehive, Pleiades (in its purity)
And the expansive
Coma Berenices

Though armed with the Hubble
Deep sky objects
And deeper cosmologies
Perhaps the shooting stars
(Their random indeterminacy
Such a delight)
Are still the most magical
Amidst the churning satellites
Of man

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