> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.andyposner.org/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# The Busy Muse
- URL: https://www.andyposner.org/the-muse/
- Published: 2019-03-05T13:28:49.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-15T05:03:09.000Z
- Description: A rock skips across the sky, leaves concentric circles of cloud to wonder at.
- Author: Andy
- Tags: poetry, #Migrated-1784090317409, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-15 04:39

A rock skips across the sky,  
leaves concentric circles of cloud  
to wonder at.

You flung it long ago, before we met,  
when your mouth was wet  
with unformed words  
no language could yet convey, and  
your eyes shined  
like incantations of light,  
shapeless, erasing voids.

There are no names  
for the shapes that pass me by.  
They are whiffs of coffee  
teasing blood with caffeine,  
dreams I forget the moment  
they begin to make sense.

I cannot say how long  
I stay rooted here:  
Moons have formed,  
inspired poetry,  
crumbled into dust  
occluding suns, and I grow sad  
the way I imagine  
redwoods do—  
asking why all the rush.

Now a wet wind clears the stratosphere,  
pours cold air down the back of my neck.  
You crest in a heave of foam  
and effervesce on shores beyond my reach—  
I grow seasick tossing in your wake,  
leaning over rails and wondering  
why you only come when hard things  
skip across the sky and I have  
so much to take care of.