alignment

I am full of emergencies.
-Ann Lauterbach, “Chalk”, from Many Times, But Then

Read this as a horoscope:
you can understand a future
when Pluto enters the scene
but only if orbits retrograde.

The point is to keep your forecast
grey and also very specific.
What makes sense is yours to summon,
to own, and always let go.

Do not hoard misunderstandings.
Saturn will return and ask for their receipts.

A two-headed calf is born alive
just up and over the mountain range.
Rumor persists they continue to live happily.

We are told threats penetrate the softest targets first.
Similar to how human bone char was used to make sugar
for morning tea and aristocracy’s afternoon cakes
or how it’s now too warm for cold snaps,
that necessary step to create the juiciest of peaches.
To ask why starts to sound stupid and theoretical,
a conversation buried by power lines.

Neptune wants you stay curious. It is harder to stay afraid.
We heard gossip that the sun will eventually burn itself out.
What happens in the interim becomes your refuge,
a particular trope of heresy. Look for casual reminders,
those moments unfractured, soft enough to break.