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Summer 2024

An Ode to the Summer Stars

So bright you are

glorious abundant stars shower, a downpour across the night sky

Antares, angry red, the brightest star of Scorpion

Forever the target to Saggitarious’ steady arrow

Indus, where might you be, as

the Swan flys gracefully over the flow of milky way

Deneb, a first star shining its tail on a long necked swan

Andromeda, still a cursed captive,

Corona Borealis, still awaiting its king to adorn the crown

star speckels, comets, namesless particles of dust, shine upon us

such is the boundless beauty

I no longer desire jewels on this earth as

I have seen your beauty in our galaxy and beyond

this universe

Noriko Ibaragi (translated by K. Tsuyama, summer 2024)