September flower, spiked white 
wood or billowy lavender aster—

pearl crescents, monarchs, and 
golden moths come to feed 

as if worshipping where you cluster. 
There is a first star, a morning and 

evening star, a star for every event
in the zodiac; and there is one of sudden 

or ruinous nature, one which falls out 
of lucky alignment. A crossed star, dis-

possessed of favor or fortune. Tell
me, which one stood watch or 

crowned me at birth; which one offered
its distant light like a godmother?