Who Made the Stars?

you were abducted by that question

Photo: © David Whyte

Who Made the Stars?

Who made the stars?
You asked yourself,
hiding from your friends
while they beat the field with sticks,
shouting you were nowhere,
had gone to earth,
were drowned
or gone back home,
half-hiding from them
half-hearing them
as they walked away,
their mutual horror
tinged with story-telling awe,
-how they’d tell
they’…