#262 orion in winter
b'dutifully you rise\\nslowly expanding\\none day no longer\\na hunter your fate\\nfalling to artemis\\nfinally relieved\\n\\nwithin you nebulae\\nexploding and still\\nmotionless frozen\\nin deep space\\nas if from stone by\\npraxiteles hewn\\n\\ncold and colder\\ndeeper and deeper\\nbanging the gate\\nuntil daybreak\\n\\na construction of\\nimagination your\\nbow and belt an\\nabstract conundrum\\nlight years between\\nus and what you are\\n\\nthe goat and bull\\nforever behind you\\nfor millennia no prey\\nyet ever vigilant but\\ndull you drift at the\\nready silent and dead\\n\\ncold and colder\\ndeeper and deeper\\nbanging the gate\\nuntil daybreak\\n\\nepw 1.7.08 perrysburg, oh'