Luminescence
Poetry gleamed in her starlit eyes.
She knew little of astrology
yet she could translate the stars
applying strange images
as if she saw what no one else did.
Together we would climb
to the crest of a rocky hill,
there she would relate
visions of crypto-beasts and
numinous beings
as if a great poem
was threading its way
through the eyes of a billion needles,
each one a gateway
to yet another starry insight.
Before she left this world
she pointed out
a distant shinning.
“Look”! She cried.
“See how that butterfly sips
the salt tears of that crocodile”?
I could not see it then,
but I do now.
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