the moon has a tether tonight

like the big dipper
like the giant bear being spun around by its tail by the gods
Go look and see!*

I took a quick ten minute walk.
Need to get out of this house,
need to start walking again
even if it is in the dark

The sky is vast at night
all the familiar and unfamiliar constellations
still reassuring, encouraging, twinkling.

Walking down a very badly lit street
I realized I hadn't even brought along a mask.


*I looked it up now. The moon's tethered by Saturn and Jupiter. Hah! It is indeed being swung by the gods!