“Deal of the Week” is an updated take on the horoscope column. Bad advice, worse poetry, every Monday.

Meeting minds with their ancient masters is a mutual experience; a descent from purity into childhood, from nothingness into the detailed everything swirling through every cubic inch of atmosphere. Independent yet powerless, invisible weather guides this child by three threaded blessings, swinging in wild infant holiness and masquerading as a spirit. Though he bears the shape of his father, he is not the spark but the steam.