The Stars Were a Gap

The stars were a gap.
Everyone who ever

looked up
needed a story

to fill it.
No one can explain

where the Maya
or the Inca

got all that
whole-cloth,

but they did.
Things are different,

we understand them now,
but the stars

are still a gap.
Tell me a story

about them, babe,
a new one.

–July 8, 2016