Launch

Summer sky,
__________nighttime
_____glow green

from without.
__________Stars shine
_____five points

on each, like those
__________teacher
_____glued to

papers you wrote.
__________Cursive
_____still new

to you.  Remember that she
__________forbade
_____ink pens.

The air's close warmth
__________shriven,
_____naked.

Outer space stripped our souls
__________too small
_____to know.

To pierce the veil, sail
__________up -- smoke
_____broken

and nothing's
__________ever
_____the same.