AQUILA I --
CONSTELLARIA
We have
sat tonight
in distant conclave
To
name the unbounded
reach
That
may still be
grasped
By
journeying beyond
mete and bound.
We
gather to see
another mindform
Venture into our
cloister,
And
submit to eternity
those who one day
Will
convene at
the hub of time:
Apus,
heretofore
the youngest and most glorious
To the
eye, our
flower;
Grus,
sailor of
the landlocked soul, keeper
Of the
heart and
hearth;
Phoenix, who will
sustain the voyageur en route
To new
desmenes;
Cygnus, stout and
bitter defender of all
Emergent seekers;
Corvus, elder statesman
of the dawn, eternal
Justice reincarnate;
Pegasus, harbinger
of all that may, when brasses sound,
Ever
come of daring;
Myself, spokesman
cursed and blessed with raptor's
Vision
of the farthest
dooms;
And
now Peregrinus,
swiftest of harriers, who may by grace
Outfly
the curse
of reason and despair:
Ultimate survivor,
she is hereby
Decreed namesake
of the constellation seen at zenith
From
Andromeda's
first landfall.
-
David W.
Mitchell
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David / to
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