The heavy night
opened her womb
and the earth was born–
a beautiful baby blue and green
held together with
delicate knots woofed
on an invisible loom–
swaddling a new star in the universe.
Lynette G. Esposito, MA Rutgers, has been published in Poetry Quarterly, North of Oxford, Twin Decades, Remembered Arts, Reader’s Digest, US1, and others. She was married to Attilio Esposito and lives with eight rescued muses in Southern New Jersey.