peachpenumbra@googlemail.com
30/04/10
To look at the sky and see the heavens is to put yourself at the bottom of an overwhelming scale. Humankind reduced to a fleck in space. It is a unifying force, but a cold one. Watching the windows of high-rise flats flicker on and off is watching lives in play. People are as lit rooms - distant warmth, momentarily linked to your own. But to look up and not see the stars, because the city prevents it, is greater than both - life lies between you and the far-off galaxies, brings you in from the cold, tucks you in.
