Star Fish

A golden tail

Flicks restlessly,

A slim body

Darting quickly away,

Swimming the circumference

Of a yellow dwarf.

 

Across space

Light years in an instant

 

A red gold body now

Larger to match

The star,

Red giants both

One scale

One fire.

 

 

 

Distant place

Reached in an instant

 

Water washes,

Caresses,

A shore.

Like a low murmuring,

Whispered words.

 

Crouching low

Over glittering pools.

Bare toes

Clinging to rainbow rocks,

Greys and reds and greens

Running together,

While fingers send ripples

Across glimmering waters

 

‘Where are you starfish?’

 

Gloomy words

Breathed across rock pools,

Lost to the murmuring tide.

 

 

 

But light years away

Millions of wriggling bodies

Hear and respond

 

‘Here.’