Earth & Sky

 

Day Twenty-Four

I.

As a duet

the earth

serenades

the sky

the sky, the earth.

The sky lays out stars

like tablature

The earth gasps

in florets.

II.

The earth is scored with a mirror-lake of flowers that reflect the frequency of stars.

The flowers are a courtship of sweeping constellations.

The stars are notes, making eyes on a sheet of night.

Each holds a vision of the other in anacrusis.

III.

By night, the sky hums into her ink pillow,

while the brass-section bells of the earth are closed.

Harmony is held in the promise of dawn

but already the flowers are dying

and what light tantalised

may but be a star long dead.

The sky and the earth -

Each cradling their music -

Each mourning a union.

Made musing lines from Together Alone by Crowded House, and Only Talking Sense by Neil & Tim Finn.