#262 orion in winter

dutifully you rise slowly expanding one day no longer a hunter your fate falling to artemis finally relieved within you nebulae exploding and still motionless frozen in deep space as if from stone by praxiteles hewn cold and colder deeper and deeper banging the gate until daybreak a construction of imagination your bow and belt an abstract conundrum light years between us and what you are the goat and bull forever behind you for millennia no prey yet ever vigilant but dull you drift at the ready silent and dead cold and colder deeper and deeper banging the gate until daybreak epw 1.7.08 perrysburg, oh