Constellations That Never Caught On

By Lara Dolphin

like the printing office
may have their place in history
but who wants to think about movable type 
while gazing at the heavens 

and do we really need a tightly packed chain 
of glowing orbs depicting headlights on the 405
or a shocking column of bright stars 
in the fashionable part of the galaxy 
reminding us of Angelina Jolie’s right leg

still we go on collecting these orphans of light
setting up boundaries, dividing the sky
dropping into atlases, telling familiar stories
filling the boundless pastures of time 

Lara Dolphin is an attorney, nurse, wife and mom of four amazing kids; she is exhausted and elated most of the time.