Star Bright

THOSE STARS THAT TURN IN US

I do not know
how to keep it all together
or by what patterns
this world might
finally hold.

What I know is
our hearts are bigger
than this sky
that wheels above us

and what shines
through all this darkness
shines through us,
setting every shattered thing
into a new constellation,

and we can turn
our faces
to that light,
to the grace of
those stars
that turn in us.

—Jan Richardson
from How the Stars Get in Your Bones: A Book of Blessings
janrichardson.com/books

Image: “A New Constellation”
© Jan Richardson