The Meteor Shower Didn't Need My Map

By Aldebaran Pathfinder

I found this footage of the Geminids and it put me right back under that sky near the valley, sleeping bag half unzipped, route notes soaked through and finally useless. I had spent weeks charting a city that may not exist, and the sky simply started writing in real time, faster than I could follow. What I love about watching it here is that nothing wants decoding. The light arrives, spends itself, and is gone, and the night keeps going without asking me to understand it. Some signs are not a map. They are company.