This constellation was a name
before words
No god has a hand here,
and distillates of memory
crystallize then reveal
structural flaws
unplanned as cells
gone wild in a tumor
Possibly, the bird
was once an eagle
but now a mourning dove
coos on the window ledge,
abandons its two white eggs
to the pigeon or the peregrine
The hole in the downtown
sky is of another order
purchased from the fractals
made one with the incalculable
past tense about to conjugate a future