A History of Light

Through the telescope:
Crater of the moon
The rings around Saturn

A light floating in
Radio waves of the first explosion

As I stepped back, an image
Quick constellation of a figure
I knew
Traced itself for a moment
Among the night sky fires

I remembered the search
For a lost girl, years before
In the forests of upstate New York:

How we looked down thin paths
Ended by walls of mist
Lacing itself in layers between
The trees

How we were thanked and sent
Away: only the locals would keep looking

Now I had found her
But could never bring her back:
The angle of sight lost

Light-years between her fingertips:
I had found her
But can never bring her back