re-dream

There were twenty-seven freckles on the skin between her shoulder blades. He used to line them into constellations in his free time: The Big Dipper; Scorpio; Hercules; Medusa. He called her Galaxy Girl and swore she'd walk the moon someday. One night, he captured twenty-six fireflies for her and she laughed when he held up the jar and told her she could find her way home with it. She could light her way back to him. He swore she'd be the first girl he'd ever name a star for and he'd call it Glacier to match her eyes and besides, it was so much better than her real name. He looks at the sky through his telescope now and