Orion Rising

connecting
constellations dot-to-dot

drawing our chalky hands across
the blackboard of sky we lay horizontal
in dew-soaked grass

yet were not physical
with our passions
& though I was an unbeliever,
in true faith I christened you, my Orion

more ethereal than the heavens,
I longed for you but could never touch you.

you would but guide me
send me out upon the
crossroads

when all the stars fell supernova
& I could no longer
see the path

I set my compass by memories of
your luminous eyes

& walked on
realizing we have been lovers
since that night

& though highways have forked
our climax has yet to come