Astronomy

When his class studies

Chapter Four: Space, Jason wants

to eat stars for breakfast, refuses eggs, bacon,

toast. Too much milk

spills onto the plastic table cloth, the birth

of the milky way around the bottom

of his bowl.

He can't stop talking, proud

that he knows the Northern Lights,

the constellations, his spoon

disapearing sporadically into the black hole

of his mouth.

Sugar, the color of dreams, sticks

to the corners of his lips, a constellation

of crumbs, the little dipper

already late for school, wipes

his mouth over Orion's belt,

leaves a nebula streaking across

his clean shirt.