Saturday nights in the city,
we catch one another
glancing up
at the glossy wrought iron
black gate of sky,
pretending not to be
hunting for stars—as if
privately trying,
by the vague light of their ailing halos,
to discover some sliver, a half-
buried arrowhead, one milky brittle
fossil of fingernail signaling
those directions we all forgot
together—five, ten, maybe twenty
million years ago.
