A father bribes her
with a yellow-white brooch
(striped enamel, diamond,
and ten glittery baguettes)
dangling in a black velvet case.
She stretches up for the honey-pale token, to pin it
on her blouse, over a heart lit like a jack-o'-lantern.
But Saturn lumbers off
with its curio cloudbank,
sky-tethers the icy shoal
elsewhere, padding round
an orbit, just
out of reach.