"The Pleiades is a relatively young cluster
of bluish of stars some 450 light-years distant."
The house on Afternoon Street
vermilion dahlias
guarding the gates
blue doorways
and gardens of heliotrope
visited by bees
Flowers are ringing
through the rooms
Windows look out
on parchment mountains
on groves of
Indian madder
rough chaff tree
ash-colored fleabane
At night
their silvered panes
gather the light
from young blue stars
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