Solar Return
Where were you? The planets aligned
moon reflected craters incomplete astronomy
the circumference of another year
postcards to nowhere
constellation trails unlike breadcrumbs
lead to no home
another decade withdrawn replaying retrograde footsteps
orbits of time only moving forward
through telescopic lens imagine
catching the light of passing comets; refracted flares
of a former you, a latter-day me, untwined
succumbing to a gravitational pull.
