Astronomer Boy Lassos a Falling Star

“A young astronomer boy in his backyard has accidentally lassoed a falling star with a jump rope, the star pulling him upward off his feet into the night sky, his telescope tumbling below, his dog leaping up trying to grab his trailing sneaker laces, the neighborhood shrinking beneath him as he rises through wispy clouds toward a vast star-filled cosmos above, the star warm and surprised but not unkind”