The Boy and I
are stargazing
with our SkyView
phone apps

reading names:

Dabih

Mirzam

Capella

Aldebaran

Taygeta

Elnath

Tien Kwan

Betelgeuse

Fomalhaut

Altair

Vega

Deneb

the Pleiades

—makes me remember
that God knows all the stars
and calls them by name
I tell The Boy.

His face is turned up
toward the glittering heavens

after a long moment
he speaks:

I wonder what names
they are.

—Me, too, Boy.

He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name. – Psalm 147:4