For Starlight (WC)

 

(Wendy Cabell, published in Writers at Play Presents: The Art of Letter Writing, edited by Daisy Barrett-Nash, Equal Arts, 2023. A previous poem, revisited to include in a letter for Daisy Barrett Nash's Writers at Play, letter writing series 2022. Image is of Stella Maris, from here)

For Starlight

I am the root and 

the offspring of David,

the bright morning star. 

-Rev 22:16

 Words they are bowls for Starlight. True joy in the smoothing, the holding them. True fear in the thinking that's all there is. But

no worries–-

words they are bowls

for Starlight