How heartbreaking this starry sky tonight,
so clear you can spy The Hunter’s blazing
belt buckle tighten as he starts to fight
Taurus yet again, glowing arm raising
to strike the final blow. Such deep sorrow
to witness once more eternal conflict
in our heaven, holding back tomorrow
so the Greeks’ adored hero may protect
his lover Eos, allow her to share
the dawn. How tragic to know his bronze club
won’t block Artemis’s arrow. It tears
through his flaming frame at speed to disturb
the moon. Yet how sweet, though he’ll soon be gone,
we don't have to watch his sad fate alone.
Roger Armbrust
January 6,
2013
