Poetry in Motion
San Francisco
Stars
Gary Soto
Stars
At dusk the first stars appear.
Not one eager finger points toward them.
A little later the stars spread with the night
And an orange moon rises
To lead them, like a shepherd, toward dawn.
From The Elements of San Joaquin. Copyright © 2018 Gary Soto. Used with Permission from the author and Chronicle Books, LLC. Muni Art 2021 , San Francisco Beautiful, sfbeautiful.org. Poster design by Wes Wellner.