Astronomical Observation CRS 07192013 Charles Randall Stanfield
“you hover on the surface of the sun” ~ Jaime Mathis, It Rises and Falls
“Dance Orange” painting by Charles Randall Stanfield
The opposite of sunspots, that was you.
You wandered on the surface of a star
The rest of us could never see. Your blue
Was brighter than our yellows ever are
And unlike normal blemishes on suns
You never lingered, fixed and stolid, stuck
In place for scientists to see. The ones
Of us you left behind in death were struck
With your phenomenon, your azure life
So different from the burnt orange swirls on
Our nearest globe of fire. Your wife and wife
And wife, and friend, won’t know another dawn
That rises with a nomad darkness that is bright.
Our telescopes can see now only night.