Starlight
As it parades across the summer sky, the sun
beckons the face of every sunflower to follow her,
each enchanted heart bound to the heart
of our celestial ancestor by the light shared between stars.
All turn entranced and beguiled, almost in worship
of the life-giving day, and the power of sunshine
that flows through each vein of every leaf
is captured and transmuted into the energy and potential
of the next generation of sunflowers, and in turn
the starlight becomes the bee and the snail,
and everything that has ever lived.
I call my style “Stardust” because everything is made from stars,
even the rocks and the oceans began in the embers
of dead and dying suns, and the twisting threads that
run between each of my stars represents the cosmic web
that holds each galaxy in place and guides them across the universe.
“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are
a way for the universe to know itself.” - Carl Sagan
April 12 – May 13 , 2020
then August 27, 2023 – January 18, 2024
