Musca, by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

Musca

by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

You may be surprised
I like you,
southern fly,
but I'll explain to you why.

Last winter
a your little sister, a northern fly
(forgotten by the astronomers)
came from the sky
into my apartment,
becoming my only honest comrade
for that time period.

And I am a good friend
for all the minor constellations.

Andrei Dorian Gheorghe is the founder and director of the Cosmopoetry Festival of the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy-SARM. He is the editor of over 30 slim English anthologies of Romanian and international astropoetry, and is the author of original astropoetry performances presented at the International Meteor Organization Conferences 1997-2002, the Leonid MAC Workshop of NASA (Tel Aviv, 2000), and the European Convention of Science Fiction - Romania 2001. In 2003, he initiated the Meteor Contemporary Poetry Project for the IMO.