it's clearly past my bedtime, and I'm out of my field.
Apogee
These schematics are purely rhetorical.
words don't mean as much when you look at the sky
and see the milkyway tracing past Cassiopeia, clouds wrestling Ursa major
I'm scanning the starscape every night now, waiting for three telltale stars
As though the sight of a hunter pacing my field of vision might grant clarity
Artemis or Orion?
and then the sun, as if apollo could chase it all away,
burn off the questions like early morning fog,
as if the moon didn't rise in mockery of midnight half the time
suspended in pale daylight
sunrise doesn't shed light on grey areas, sometimes there's a moon at high noon
Sometimes Polaris can't point you in the right direction
then again, maybe going in circles isn't a symptom of being lost.
maybe it's just mirroring the rotation of the sky through the seasons.
What's this obsession with straight lines from point A to point B anyway?
Everything else in the universe works in arcs and cycles.
So. The orbit on this question.
where's perigee? Do I ever get any closer, and when I do,
will I just spin away again?
These schematics are purely rhetorical.
words don't mean as much when you look at the sky
and see the milkyway tracing past Cassiopeia, clouds wrestling Ursa major
I'm scanning the starscape every night now, waiting for three telltale stars
As though the sight of a hunter pacing my field of vision might grant clarity
Artemis or Orion?
and then the sun, as if apollo could chase it all away,
burn off the questions like early morning fog,
as if the moon didn't rise in mockery of midnight half the time
suspended in pale daylight
sunrise doesn't shed light on grey areas, sometimes there's a moon at high noon
Sometimes Polaris can't point you in the right direction
then again, maybe going in circles isn't a symptom of being lost.
maybe it's just mirroring the rotation of the sky through the seasons.
What's this obsession with straight lines from point A to point B anyway?
Everything else in the universe works in arcs and cycles.
So. The orbit on this question.
where's perigee? Do I ever get any closer, and when I do,
will I just spin away again?