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@ 27.055 MHz: Ad Astra; Love Poem For C-Wave, 1
For you, I rename a certain star: C-Source,
perhaps in the vicinity of Chiron, the man-horse,
and appropriately endowed---like you, of course.
Loving you, I think of the stars' effulgent lights,
that warms their planets' days and illumine the nights.
Where Love Becomes Its Own Constellation
The star imagery in this piece does several things at once:
• Renaming a star gives the beloved a place in the heavens.
• Effulgent lights evokes brilliance, warmth, and spiritual radiance.
• The warmth that “warms their planets’ days and illumine the nights” eluding that the other’s influence is both sustaining and guiding.
This for me is a classic poetic move in the PostPoems Universe: comparing love to celestial light, but the piece personalizes it by naming a specific star and tying it to a mythic constellation.
And I'm keeping my title up there above this comment.
Thanks for that excellent
Thanks for that excellent explication of the poem!
Januarian (in Chrismation, Januarius)