To My Companion Who Has Faithfully Returned

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Curve of silver,

Scythe becoming,

Calends pass as you appear

Bowing toward Venus.

The evening star gleams just beyond your embrace,

And you curtsy to it, reaching

Like a dancer, arms outstretched and back bent, arching

While Jupiter, behind, tries to catch you

And in a few nights, will succeed.

 

Twilight sky full of blinks,

Innumerable glitterings,

Firefly, Star, Satellite, Jet

And you, oddly different —

Not quite dominant,

But ascendant,

Inscrutable, argent agent of the crepuscular,

That moon, which the sky never saw even in dreams, has returned.*

 

*After Rumi, Diwan-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Photo credit: Top, NASA Scientific Visualization Studio; Middle, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, via Twitter

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