Orion

Orion is the winter sky made into a name, a hunter who stretched himself across three belt stars and waits for January nights to lift him over the horizon. The Greek myth gives him a life of chases, love affairs, and a death at the hands of a scorpion, whereupon Zeus set him among the constellations. The name has only recently climbed into the American top 400, finding favor with parents drawn to cosmic, mythological names with heft. Three syllables unfurl like a slow breath. Orion feels vast, literate, and just a little lonely in the best way.