your hands
made stars
trail heat and light
upon and under my skin
your lifts, scratches,
and drags
oily
but sometimes sharp
raising and razing
my soft palette
shivering with
longing and
delightremember
when you painted
new constellations
on me all the night?

If Andromeda were brighter, this is how it would look in our night sky.
They’re all out there, we just can’t see themDistance to Earth: 2,538,000 light years

Embracing the fjord, a dusk-dimmed Bergen laps against mountain walls, Norway, 1971Photograph by George F. Mobley, National Geographic









