Orion Descending

Then my dog took a detour, pulling me onto the grassy lawn outside the row of apartment buildings on my block. As he sniffed the base of a palm tree, my eyes drifted heavenward. Between the moonlit silhouetted heads of the palm trees sat the constellation Orion. I stared for want of things to do.

As I watched, the stars one by one fell from the sky and landed in the grass beside me, forming a plasmatic whole upon their earthly reunion. And there he was! The warrior stood before me accompanied by Sirius. For a moment, my dog and he assessed each other. Orion raised his sword in greeting, then they dissipated into the evening fog that had descended upon the neighborhood.