Evening Star

 
      
When next you see an evening star    
(clouds dispersed and fading sun)    
night jars shall join to  reflect retreating day
 and  coming night,when moons    
shall light the blue-black sky.    
Look into the night and, if you will,think who    
shares this view. a view as ancient    
past time unchanged  as pictures on the wall,    
save for cracks and  peeling gilt.
Pigments  shrinking in the stale    
air and sterile gaze of incomprehension.