Stars kept falling from the sky
and sometimes into my arms
bringing down with them
people's wishes
hopes
and fears
those before kept silent
now whispered word for word;
but I didn't know how to treat them
or what to do with them all
so I kept wishing on every star falling
their trajectory
magnificent and bright as it was
would start backwards to take place
pinning them for good
shielded from oblivion
to the nightsky.
Yet stars kept falling
downwards solely
and I continued looking
out and about for them.
Observing the Perseid meteor shower;
August 2022, Samothraki.
Photograph: collage of shots at Kipoi, Samothraki.
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