Shade moves with the Earth.
Steller lights etch prisms
into the sphere of breath.
Florid scenes of birth
far older than Helios
tumble forth.

A star removed itself
to space as fingers darkened
running shapes
with coal upon stone.
Relic radiation!

One star removed itself
to space as fingers darkened
running shapes
with coal upon stone.
Its pristine, scattered globe
smolders from another sky's night.

My irises swarm
the blue-white mantle where abides
blood's primeval residue.