Ikeya-seki

parable of life
zooming through the stratosphere
in parabolic flight.

ancient sign
(pestilence and war)
viewed at the perihelion ellipse
but only before dawn
or near the waning dusk
for you are eclipsed
in the brightness of day.

eccentric mass
tailed with 75 million miles
west-east travels
toward the Oriens on high
defining and passing-
you of all
could steer into the sun
be captured and consumed.

WHY NOT?

source of light and heat
brilliancy in obscurity
there waiting
wanting
drawing.

near immersion...
such "I"-ism backwards
running and plunging
toward the aphelion darkness
until...