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title: 'the whole of the sky'
url: 'https://stevenjaycohen.com/journal/the-whole-of-the-sky'
markdown: 'https://stevenjaycohen.com/journal/the-whole-of-the-sky.md'
date: '2023-02-25'
description: 'Gazing at the night sky, I try to let go of the shapes that I know. Dippers, and hunters, and heroes — bears, sisters, and swans. I try to relax my focus and invite the night to shape itself. Without the shapes, the stories can defy words. They are a tale of the moment that cannot be told, only exp…'
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# the whole of the sky

## [the whole of the sky](https://stevenjaycohen.com/journal/the-whole-of-the-sky)

    25th Feb 2023   [poetry](https://stevenjaycohen.com/tag:poetry#body-wrapper) [PostADay](https://stevenjaycohen.com/tag:PostADay#body-wrapper) [thoughts](https://stevenjaycohen.com/tag:thoughts#body-wrapper) [writing](https://stevenjaycohen.com/tag:writing#body-wrapper)  

Gazing at the night sky, I try to let go of the shapes that I know. Dippers, and hunters, and heroes — bears, sisters, and swans.

I try to relax my focus and invite the night to shape itself.

Without the shapes, the stories can defy words. They are a tale of the moment that cannot be told, only experienced.

The weight of the light, derived of the heft of helium sinking through a red glow, in upon itself, from so far away, that now has no meaning. I see the light in my now, but when did it become itself — the light, the result of an event long gone. Gone without a story.

Too big, too massive is the sky. My mind struggles and loses to the patterns as they reassert themselves. I see the outlines and lose the whole.

So small, we are so very small, in the scheme of things.

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