Personal Astronomy

up in the sky

there, up in the night,
percolating with a bellyfull of stardazzle,
starbuckled Orion speadeagles
to the zenith above, bow drawn,
whooping a challenge to Great Bear, there,
who flings Polaris to perch forever
on Little Bear-Dipper's long bearwagging tail,
and there, Cassiopeia with her great grin of a crown,
laughs to see such a sight
and there, my heart runs away with the moon