Dreams of the Ecliptic

To change a girl into a kite,

            tell her that love is the moon.  

To teach a tree to sing,

            put a harp under its branches.

To change a bowl of dust into a planet,

            paint watercolor rings around the ecliptic.

To change the sky into a dream,

            put a song into a hammock.

To melt an ice cube,

            light a fire under the map of the constellations.

To write a symphony in a major key,

            plant a rainbow under an apple tree.

To create a universe,

            ride on a meteor shower

                        as the archer shoots a path of light

                                    across the sky.

When the sun rises for the first time,

            fill the sky with your singing.

                                                            ~ Diane Frank

This poem is published in Canon for Bears and Ponderosa Pines, (Glass Lyre Press, 2018).