Just hours before an opalescent moon
Waxed in the sky over Brezoria County
Brightly freckled by the Alphae Librae
And the Zubeneschamali, the northern claw,
A green chemical engineer witnessed
The most beautiful miracle of life, appearing
As an infant child with sea-colored eyes.
After, in the makeshift neonatal unit
Of tiny Brazosport Community,
He thought about the woman his child would become.
From the minute she entered Elena’s
Classroom, took a moment to retrieve a paperback,
and sat in the empty desk next to me,
The woman with the sea-colored eyes did become
Inseparable to my life: my fixed
Counterpoint in John Donne’s compass, the heavenly
Object of my orbit.
I think about the woman my wife has become.
Four orbits around and who knows
Maybe the woman and I...
I‘ll think about the person my child would become.
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