The last 12 months have emerged and expanded chaotically
like smoke from a genie’s bottle
disorienting in its possibility 
    and slightly terrifying in its power.
I didn’t always notice it
The way your eyes adjust at night
when the motion light at your own front door clicks on
you’re blinded by the shock.

Jupiter’s mass is more than double that of the rest of the planets combined
and it moves through each day in less than ten hours.
On the other side now
I’m marveling at the expanse of its reach
Not one cobwebbed corner of my life
    left undisturbed.
The astrological equivalent of an enormous charging otherworldly animal
    having just ravaged my entire life
I would have imagined myself
at least shaken
if not utterly shattered.
But here I am
eyes on the sky
ready for more.