Note: the kindergarten gold star sticker has, of course, five points. And the spectacular morning glory flower has five petals.
FIVE
what could an immense burning
furnace in the cold urn of space with
a sphere the size of a hundred worlds
possibly have in common
with its namesake sticker–
that little glittering golden star
given out for a job well done
in arithmetic or writing a story?
what but each a spark jump starting a sun
to rise upon a field of morning glories.