Monday 29 August 2022

A Poem a Day (532): Moon

 
Moon
 
We count faces in all the spaces where faces
live, spy saddened shadows in the glass;
small facets of a likeness drawn slightly.
 
We step lightly, aware of every vibration,
where it lands, how it breathes out motion,
lip sync, lines upon lines read out loud.
 
It is the opening of all stories known, svelte,
tongue-tied and thought-melted. Congealed
hue. It makes the night ache, clouds shifting,
 
beckoning the air to follow and bow. We
applaud the moon stepping out in a fur boa
of starlit awe. She stoops to conquer the light.
 
Copyright Vickie Johnstone, August 29, 2022


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