Polaris screams at Orion
The milk spilled between them
Jupiter sulks out the back door
And Mars teases the sisters
Saturn stumbles into the foyer
Rings dangling, hair disheveled
Chaplin’s muse stalks the dipper
Saturn staggers after Jupiter.
The sandstone, the pinyon, the yucca
Gape in conspiratorial silence
Quiet rings ears.
Who needs Twitter, Facebook, Instagram
When the stars careen
Above the desert.