The silence of untranslated stars

     …you can look at something, close your eyes, and see it again and still know nothing – like staring at the sky to figure out the distances between stars.

     -Ann Beattie, Jacklighting

     Image:  Laure Albin-Guillot, Planche XVI Diatomée, 1931

               Title: e.e. cummings, adapted from "Summer Silence"