A memory of a story from long ago by AdmirableMonster  

After Years

With thanks to janeways for the prompt: "After Years" by Ted Kooser

Today, from a distance, I saw you
walking away, and without a sound
the glittering face of a glacier
slid into the sea. An ancient oak
fell in the Cumberlands, holding only
a handful of leaves, and an old woman
scattering corn to her chickens looked up
for an instant. At the other side
of the galaxy, a star thirty-five times
the size of our own sun exploded
and vanished, leaving a small green spot
on the astronomers retina
as he stood on the great open dome
of my heart with no one to tell.

The first night Dernodhos sleeps at Himring, her dreams are huge and strange.  She sees a star born, vast beyond measure and cupped in its mother’s hands, captured by her threads.  She lives its conception in warm cries, in clandestine kisses and adulterous whispers.  She wakes wet and shaking, her square of blanket beneath her pillow.  A visitation from her mother’s god, or only the echoes of an old story? And maybe that’s less important than when Echeleb hears the fearful sounds she makes on waking, appears yawning at her side, and tells her, “Shove over, I’ll sleep beside you.”