some stars spin in the atmosphere

above our heads

they puncture the dark inky night

the way they move is to shimmer 

it’s an easy movement 

in conjunction with other stars

they form a pattern

gracefully 

artfully 

tracing paths across the sky

if we could see them close up

we’d see serenity 

as they spin

and arms stretched out endlessly

trailing into one another

and linking to other stars

also spinning

some stationary

some doing movements that don’t make sense at first glance

but they can link together

and suddenly the one over here knows exactly how to do what it does