-the sky readers-

the night skies bring a bright procession. then

the ancient Hindu-piston drives the arc where

elephants herald the breaking news from the shell

of a tortoise which supports them as the arc of the Earth

rests upon their backs, and circling the entity, the cobra

holds its tail within its jaws, thereby theorizing a closed-form universe

16 centuries before the Big Bang's entry to the propositions

of stasis, contraction, oscillation, and expansion of the cosmos.

and so, I'll reach to peel-back this primitive dream.

after all, as droll as it may seem to our collective sense of celestial

objects in relative motion, it remains the first step toward the destination.