Earth's shadow:
sweet fish in sea of space
& changing the phases all in one night-----
My how the sky receives this
easy as a magician's handkerchief
dyed with the stars stitched in as camouflage.
Perceive such nature as though another's lips
closed lids but one's gaze felt right through that.
Touch as X-ray. Sight as probes,
& every planet there, an audience pulsing
in empathy & in awe.
They too have invisible fins, whirr & turn.
They too, suns bobbing through black tides,
glow & wait.
Resident artist/curator for The Chroma Museum, artistic renderings of LGBTQI figures and allies before Stonewall, https://thestephenmeadchromamuseum.weebly.com/, Stephen Mead is a retiree whom, throughout his employment still found time for creativity. Occasionally he even got paid of this. Currently he is trying to sell his 40-year backlog of unsold art, https://www.artworkarchive.com/profile/stephen-mead
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