Canis Minor, by Dan Mitrut

Canis Minor

by Dan Mitrut

They didn't have other lighthouses
and guardians in that side of the sky.

Procyon, put in a reservation
before its time,
sniffed those foreign places
that removed the crazy hunt.

Only a thought was soothing:
without its help,
the greater dog and the master Orion
will never kill the bull.

~ English translation from the Romanian by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe ~

Romanian lawyer and poet Dan Mitrut is the author of numerous works of astronomical poetry, folk music, photography, graphics, sculpture, and drama. A meteor observer included in the International Meteor Organization Database, he is a multiple laureate for the astronomical arts at the Cosmopoetry Festival of the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy-SARM. He serves as the technical vice president of SARM and has authored original astro-folk music recitals performed at the EuRoEclipse Perseids 99 (Romania) and the IMO Conference 2000 (Romania).