Cancer, by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

Cancer

by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

Constellation Cancer,
you live simultaneously
in different times:
as a miserable being
crushed by Hercules,
on a side,
or as the House of the Moon,
the Sun of the South,
the Horoscope of the World,
or the Northern Gate of the Sun,
on the other side ...
or as a sacred being,
or as the place where Comet Halley
was seen for the first time.

You use to go back,
crab.
Perhaps we'll learn from you
to travel in time.

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.