the next day, posters started appearing for the dance.
i asked her what she was planning to do that night.
"stargaze," she answered.
"why?"
"because i love the night sky."
her answer was enough, but i still wondered why
no, not why anymore, how,
i still wondered how
she was so interested in the cosmos
when she obviously was the cosmos,
when all she needed to do was look into herself to find the cosmos,
she was the human embodiment of the moon and the stars and the constellations.
yet she was still so fascinated
with how it all worked.
