You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the very first time, the laugh broke up into a thousand pieces of light, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. So now everytime a new baby is born, its first laugh becomes a fairy. — J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

From all those babies laughing, there must be billions of fairies.
When it rains, they dance in a circle through water droplets,  creating a rainbow. 

And when the fairies laugh, they create new stars.
The stars become bright galaxies where they can live.         

So when we look at the night sky, are we seeing fairies or stars?
It depends on how you look at them. Like light,
fairies are both waves and particles. 

Nothing is faster than the speed of fairies skipping. 

[Lorraine Schein is a New York writer and poet. Her work has appeared in VICE Terraform, Strange Horizons, NewMyths and Michigan Quarterly, and in the anthologies Wild Women and Tragedy Queens. Her new book, The Lady Anarchist Cafe, is out now from Autonomedia.
https://autonomedia.org/product/the-lady-anarchist-cafe/]