— from Gersholm Scholem/PBSI cannot of course hopeWhen icy desert is a long eveningin the solar systemThe whole sweep and swirlflares up suddenly brightDarkly it stood in their pathoccasionally streaked with lightas it runs its course through the agesA coming now since centuries pastA spirit body also sitsActive and alive todayA great primordial accomplishmentWho knows what their original meaning was?Who will explain the explanation?They do it most out of a vast, central love for astronomyThey continuously and bitterly complain. ____Born in Brooklyn, NY, Peter Ramon currently lives in Austin, TX.  He writes in what he calls NuPoetics, which is a method of writing that involves choice and chance and forgetting.  See his archives at www.nupoetics.com.