The Wilder Wise

Warm in the back Your windows high Silver trees are ghosting by And constellations beyond them Trilogies and cornerstones Tell me beliefs Tell me namesakes live on Hung up as corals and lights They'll roll and glide On their stage like an ocean And grow us up in their tides Wilder wise Bare your claws and climb Celestial We're callow, caught in your skies Wilder wise Bare your claws and climb We draw up lines Call comets down We gather planets, pour them out In the shapes that we know In the markers that we use to find home But the lines pull faces The lights dance selfless Beyond outer limits And shore us up for our rites We brand our backs and throw our arms wide Hydra Carina Serpens Lynx Orion Corvus Auriga And sun Son, bare your claws and climb