Poem 171 – Father

Father

Celestial snowball orbiting the sun
love-heated, glow-bursting for millions of miles
my soul’s lightbulb, everlasting universal phenomenon
his dust in my blood paternal platelets

Though his body is back in the sky
I feel his pull, the tug of his place in the formation
of the solar system we call family – ours with many suns
his brilliance coverage for each body that still breathes
that touches earth to ground him deeper into every
strand of lifetime his love expressed even
when his mouth did not have the language
I continue to translate his light