His arm pointed into the black filament
he remembers what he was going to say:
The stars are no friendlier than
your atoms divided into electrons, protons,
neutrons, mesons, and space jelly
cut from the same palm tree.
Take the celestial realms for example,
they fall, explode, spin, hypnotize,
crack delicate as porcelain,
blitz and audience
louder than a coconut grove,
stickier than a blind date.
The bird is another example of lofty person
or persons colorful and extremely hairy
that shed light among the twinkling host.
With no more than a sheet and a boulder
a philosopher is resurrected,
the dead tidy their graves
and the wandering jew taps at the sill,
poets bury their heads in the dust,
welders forget to weld,
songs cling to telephone poles,
barnacles dance in from the shore
and many another wonder clap the eyes and ears together.
If this is the beginning
of our friendship  let it be modest,
hopeful, and drawn as well as this horse to your liking.