Elliptical Orbits

  

Sunlight streaks
scatter horizons
as the day now goes
to  sleep
and knight time arises
the moon arcs up
and speeds
back down and lies still
the air we need , we breathe
it protects us from violet
it almost seems hard to believe
a balance so exact
that it's perfect
from the angle we turn at
to an elliptical orbit
this life we have it seems
too engineered
to be ordinary.