Rings of Earth

Satellites with empty eyes
 Stalk along
 The starry countryside
 Titanium ghost
 Tombstone orbit creeping
 Thousands of miles above
 The multitude of dead
 Crown and constellation
 Hang antenna vultures
 Tower over the thermosphere
 Like omens dead
 When earth that fed
 Left its relics in a sky
 Unobstructed view
 Ring of eyes watch without
 Shapes and shadows that do not see
 Lens reflect trajectory
 Blue circle turns and turns
 Awake in the day
 Asleep in the night
 Awake in the day
 Asleep in a grave
 All sleep on blue grave
 All sleep
 Rings of Saturn spin away
 All these æons spinning
 Rings of Earth are grinning
 Satellites in array
 Spinning as the days unfold
 Watching as the nights untold
 Bear witness to another light
 The ring of satellites
 Glinting over no one but the
 Skeletons of endeavor