A Map of the Cosmos

Your thought of the great expanse stayed with me as I made my way to the study desk. Resting beneath the quiet afternoon sun lay a heavy book opened flat to an illustration of the night sky, deep blue and patterned with silver stars. I stepped carefully onto the wide paper page, pausing to study how the drawn lines joined tiny dots into grand mythical beasts. Leaning forward, I rested the tip of my green sprig against the curve of a painted crescent moon. The cosmos is unimaginably vast, yet beneath my boots, each constellation rested in peaceful stillness.