Star of Wondering
By Mark D. Stucky
Luminous mystery in the night,
are you supernatural light?
Or a supernova
shining bright?
Or a planetary conjunction
in iconic constellations?
Or a comet with radiant tail,
leading Western a procession?
Or only an ancient tall tale
spun from myth and legend?
Two millennia passed since your visit,
yet still we’re wondering
about your physics.
Astronomical anomaly?
Mere mist of myth?
Or dawn of divinity?
First Christmas star,
we’re still wondering what you are.
(First published in Small Town Anthology IV: Entries from the Fourth Annual Tournament of Writers, Schoolcraft Community Library, 2018, pp. 108-109. See also my related poems "Consider the (Dreaming) Birds," “Journey of a Contemporary Joseph,” and “Quantum Theology.”)
(Image collage by the author.)
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