Kathleen Kit Johnson lives and writes in Reva, Virginia.

Women in Love and Seven Planets: 5:15 a.m. May 7, 2018

He must leave for work
by 4:45 a.m. But first, for
a time, they share coffee,
his black, hers milky sweet.
When his tail lights fade,
She walks Wagoner Road
Filled with love. Yet,
Looking up, she is struck
Cold, for there in the sky
As if incised by a knife,
Sits a perfect half moon
And a wide array
Of seven planets:
Silvery Mercury, luminous
Venus, red Mars, bold
Saturn, cold Jupiter,
Faint Neptune, and,
Fainter Uranus.
As for her and what
Quick grows inside her,
Earth is their planet.
As one, they listen to
the pines begin to sigh
and the birds begin sing.